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Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eaves-dropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself playe
Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eaves-dropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself playe
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2022-07-29
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Don’t talk: your cell phone may be eaves-dropping. Thanks to recent developments in "spy phone" software, a do-it-yourself player can now wirelessly transfer a wiretapping program to any mobile phone. The programs are inexpensive, and the transfer requires no special skill. The would-be spy needs to get his hands on your phone to press keys authorizing the download, but it takes just a few minutes—about the time needed to download a ringtone.
This new generation of user-friendly spy-phone software has become widely available in the last year—and it confers stunning powers. The latest programs can silently turn on handset microphones even when no call is being made, allowing a spy to listen to voices in a room halfway around the world. Targets are none the wiser: neither call logs nor phone bills show records of the secretly transmitted data.
More than 200 companies sell spy-phone software online, at prices as low as $50 (a few programs cost more than $30O). Vendors are loath to release sales figures. But some experts—private investigators and consultants in counter-wiretapping, computer-security software and telecommunications market research— claim that a surprising number of people carry a mobile that has been compromised, usually by a spouse, lover, parent or co-worker. Many employees, experts say, hope to discover a supervisor’s dishonest dealings and tip off the top boss anonymously. Max Maiellaro, head of Agata Christie Investigation, a private-investigation firm in Milan, estimates that 3 percent of mobiles in France and Germany are tapped, and about 5 percent or so in Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain. James Atkinson, a spy-phone expert at Granite Island Group, a security consultancy in Gloucester, Massachusetts, puts the number of tapped phones in the U.S. at 3 percent. (These approximations do not take into account government wiretapping.) Even if these numbers are inflated, clearly many otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to break wiretapping laws.
Spyware thrives on iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones because they have ample processing power. In the United States, the spread of GSM networks, which are more vulnerable than older technologies, has also enlarged the pool of potential victims. Spyware being developed for law-enforcement agencies will accompany a text message and automatically install itself in the victim’s phone when the message is opened, according to an Italian developer who declined to be identified. One worry is that the software will find its way into the hands of criminals.
The current predicament is partly the result of decisions by Apple, Microsoft and Research In Motion (producer of the BlackBerry) to open their phones to outside application-software developers, which created the opening for spyware. Antivirus and security programs developed for computers require too much processing power, even for smart phones. Although security programs are available for phones, by and large users haven’t given the threat much thought. If the spying keeps spreading, that may change soon.
An employee wiretapping his boss’s mobile phone is cited to show________.
选项
A、how competitive the office has become
B、how dishonest the high-status official is
C、how widespread wiretapping is
D、how surprising wiretapping is executed by ac-quaintance
答案
C
解析
本题关键词是employee,boss和mobile phone,问题是:引用“一个员工窃听老板的手机”这个事例的目的是什么?可以定位到原文第三段。第三段第三句提到,专家称很多人的手机被配偶、情人、父母或同事窃听,且数目大得惊人(a surprising number-of people)。随后第四句举例说明,员工监听主管电话,希望发现主管的欺诈行为并向最高领导告密。由此可以推断,这个事例的目的是要说明被熟人窃听的人数众多,即窃听现象的普遍(widespread),所以选项C与原文是相同含义,为正确答案。选项D属于就事论事,这个例子不是为了证明也无法证明熟人窃听现象让人出乎意料。选项A和B属于主观推导,办公室的激烈竞争和上司的不诚实行为可能存在,但都不是这个例子要说明的问题,也与文章主题无关。第二段:间谍手机软件能悄悄打开手机话筒,窃听语音信息。第三段:多家公司在网上销售间谍软件,很多人的手机已被窃听。
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