VOA标准英语2012--Arrests Do Not Deter 'Anonymous' Hackers
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(三月)
英语课
Arrests Do Not Deter 1 'Anonymous 2' Hackers 4
Early this week the U.S. Attorney in New York indicted 5 five alleged 6 computer hackers. Authorities describe four of them as principal members of a loose hacker 3 confederation known as Anonymous. Despite these and other hacking 7 arrests, Anonymous claimed credit the very next day for a cyber-attack on the Vatican's web site.
Douglas Salane, the director of New York’s Center for Cybercrime Studies at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says the Anonymous group, with it's lack of formal structure, resembles the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“They are loosely structured groups," he said. "It looks like people operate under that banner and leave it. It looks like individuals involved can be anyone from people who don’t have [jobs and] do this fulltime, to people who have regular jobs and do this on the side.”
Salane says there is no typical hacker. Some, he says, are activists 8 like Anonymous motivated by a cause; others may be government spies; still others are thieves or adolescents seeking amusement. Computer expertise 9 is not even necessary.
“Today, there is a malware industry out there, which provides a range of tools to do hacking [so] that people don’t have to be sophisticated to use it," he said. "In fact, the people who produce malware actually provide support for it just like a regular legitimate 10 software package.”
Former FBI agent Brad Garrett says while no one is in charge of Anonymous, the group has the potential for considerable damage.
“The big concern is they do have the wherewithal to do destructiveness to national security, to corporations and even to individuals," said Garrett.
Anonymous has shut down the web sites of various governments overseas; they’ve hacked 11 into U.S. police web sites, as well as those of large corporations and credit card companies.
Even conversations between U.S. and British law enforcement officials about ways to combat hacking have been hacked.
“It's kind of like they're poking 12 the tiger, you know, but in this case, they're poking the FBI," said Kevin Mitnick, a former hacker."They want to prove to the government, apparently 13, that they're smarter.”
Douglas Salane says even with high-level prosecutions 14, hacking of all kinds will continue.
vt.阻止，使不敢，吓住
- Failure did not deter us from trying it again.失败并没有能阻挡我们再次进行试验。
- Dogs can deter unwelcome intruders.狗能够阻拦不受欢迎的闯入者。
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
- Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
- The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
n.能盗用或偷改电脑中信息的人，电脑黑客
- The computer hacker wrote that he was from Russia.这个计算机黑客自称他来自俄罗斯。
- This site was attacked by a hacker last week.上周这个网站被黑客攻击了。
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”
- They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。 来自互联网
控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )
- The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
- He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。
a.被指控的，嫌疑的
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动
- The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
- We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。
n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.专门知识(或技能等)，专长
- We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
- You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。
adj.合法的，合理的，合乎逻辑的；v.使合法
- Sickness is a legitimate reason for asking for leave.生病是请假的一个正当的理由。
- That's a perfectly legitimate fear.怀有这种恐惧完全在情理之中。
adv.显然地；表面上，似乎
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
起诉( prosecution的名词复数 )； 原告； 实施； 从事
- It is the duty of the Attorney-General to institute prosecutions. 检察总长负责提起公诉。
- Since World War II, the government has been active in its antitrust prosecutions. 第二次世界大战以来，政府积极地进行着反对托拉斯的检举活动。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件