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Day 16:Cyber-security  讲义 Cyber-security The internet of stings An electronic tsunami crashes down on a?solitary?journalist  TO A layman, the phrase “Internet of Things” (IoT) probably conjures up a half-fantastic future in which refrigerators monitor their own contents and send orders direct to the grocer when the butter is running out, while tired commuters order baths to be drawn automatically using their smartphones as they approach their houses in their self-driving cars. Actually, though, a version of the IoT is already here. Wi-Fi hubs, smart televisions, digital video-recorders and the like are all part of a network of devices run by microprocessors that, just as much as desktop, laptop and tablet computers, form part of the internet梑ut with one燾rucial distinction. Unlike things immediately recognisable as computers, these devices are often designed with poor security, or even none at all. They are wide open to爉alicious爃ackers who might wish to misuse them. And there are already around 5 billion of them, according to Cisco, the world抯 largest computer-networking company, with billions more to come in the years ahead. One favourite trick of such hackers is the distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS. This temporarily enslaves a number of internet-enabled devices into an arrangement known as a botnet, and then directs this net to send爏imultaneous爎equests for attesention to a single machine or cluster of machines, thus overwhelming it and making it unusable. Such attacks may be carried out by organised criminals, to hold a firm to ransom; by cyber-savvy countries, as a tool of low-level warfare梠r, as in the case of one of the latest attacks, for爎evenge. 一、?词汇部分 1.solitary /?sɑ?.l?.ter.i/ adj. 单独的 英文释义：A solitary?person?or thing is the only?person?or thing in a?place:  词汇助记： 1）词根：sol- 单独； 2）词根：-it 走 3）后缀：-ary 形容词后缀 4）扩展：solar 太阳的（solar system/energy） 5）扩展：solitude n.孤独  2.crucial distinction n. 关键区别  词汇助记： 1）词根：cruc- 十字，交叉 2）词根：stinct- 刺 3）扩展：