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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

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问题     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.
According to the last paragraph, for what are phone manufactures to blame?
选项 A、They make phone products compatible with other programs.
B、The security programs developed for phones are not effective.
C、They don’t develop enough anti-virus programs.
D、They don’t give much thought to the customers’ needs.
答案A
解析 本题关键词是phone manufactures，问题是：手机生产商们做了什么应该受到责备?根据题目要求(last paragraph)直接定位到原文最后一段。根据第五段第一句，造成目前的窘境，可以说一部分原因是苹果公司、微软公司和黑莓手机生产商所做的一个决定：向外部应用软件开发商开放手机产品(open their phones to outside application—software developers)，这就为间谍程序提供了可乘之机(created the opening for spyware)。由此可以推断，手机生产商们生产的手机和其他程序是兼容的(compatible)，所以选项A与原文是相同含义，为正确答案。选项B和C属于曲解文意，该段第二句说，为电脑开发的杀毒软件和安全程序要求很强的处理能力，即使对智能手机而言，这种要求也过高，言外之意，很多手机都不具备运行病毒软件和安全程序的处理能力，并不是说病毒软件和安全程序不够多(not enough)或没有起作用(not effective)，所以排除。选项D属于正反混淆，该段第三句说，尽管手机也可以安装安全程序，但总的来说，用户对这种威胁并不太在意，由此可见，并不是手机生产商们没有考虑用户需求，而是用户自己没有安装安全程序。第五段：手机生产商的决定和用户不在意的心态使间谍程序有机可乘。
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