教授为因特网未来的安全担忧.docVIP

教授为因特网未来的安全担忧 　　Since the Internet emerged a decade ago as a free and accessible global communications network，there have been countless assaults by malicious computer viruses and numerous attempts by saboteurs to crash the system. The Internet has survived them all. But the future security of the Internet is uncertain. 　　自从因特网10年以前以一种自由接入的全球通讯网络出现以来，已经遭受了无数次恶意电脑病毒的攻击，无数从事破坏活动的人试图使电脑网络系统崩溃瘫痪。尽管遭到这些攻击，因特网仍然躲过了这些劫难。不过，因特网的未来安全却很不确定。 　　Most of the hundreds of millions of regular Internet users have become so accustomed to e-mail，quick information and software sharing that they might take for granted the technical wonder of “the Net”.But not Jonathan Zittrain. Zittrain is professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University，and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He says he is continually impressed by the open-endedness of the Internet. 　　在经常使用因特网的用户当中，绝大多数人都已经习惯于使用电子邮件，快速的信息交流以及软件共享，他们可能认为这些对于技术奇迹之一的“网络”来说，都是理所应当的事情。但是斯特兰却不是这样认为。斯特兰是牛津大学因特网管理和规则学科的教授，他同时也是哈佛大学法学院伯克曼因特网和社会中心的共同创始人。他说，他一直对因特网的开放印象深刻。 　　“It is，to me，astounding，” he says “to find ourselves with this collective instrumentality where one person or a handful of people，somewhere in the world，maybe for fun or maybe for money，maybe because they want fame，can write some interesting new software that does something new，make it available over the internet，and if it turns out to be popular，before they even know it，tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people could be running the software in a matter of days.” 　　“对我来说，发现我们自己和这种聚合性的手段紧密相连，实在令人惊奇。世界某个地方的一个人或者一些人，也许他们为了好玩，或者为了金钱，或者因为他们想出名，所以他们可以编写一些有意思的新软件程序，这些软件可以通过因特网使用传播，做一些新的事情。如果这些软件受到欢迎，那么也许在这些编写程序的人意识到之前，上千万或者甚至几亿人可能只需几天的功夫就开始使用这种软件了。” 　　The problem is that the code in which apparently desirable software is written can also contain malicious instructions. These types of code are called viruses. They might be designed，for example，to erase the memory on a personal computer’s hard drive，and then