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Data has a habit of spreading. It slips past military security and it can also leak from WikiLeaks. It even slipped past the ban
Data has a habit of spreading. It slips past military security and it can also leak from WikiLeaks. It even slipped past the ban
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2017-12-11
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Data has a habit of spreading. It slips past military security and it can also leak from WikiLeaks. It even slipped past the bans of the Guardian and other media organisations involved in this story when a rogue copy of Der Spiegel accidentally went on sale in Basle, Switzerland. Someone bought it, realised what they had, and began scanning the pages, translating them from German to English and posting up-dates on Twitter. It would seem digital data respects no authority, be it the Pentagon, WikiLeaks or a newspaper editor.
Individually, we have all already experienced the massive changes resulting from digitisation. Events or information that we once considered momentary and private are now accumulated, permanent, public. Governments hold our personal data in huge databases. It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
But when data breaches happen to the public, politicians don’t care much. Our privacy is expendable. It is no surprise that the reaction to these leaks is different. What has changed the dynamic of power in a revolutionary way isn’t just the scale of the databases being kept, but that individuals can upload a copy and present it to the world.
To some this marks a crisis, to others an opportunity. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography—replacing them with an ethos of collaboration and transparency.
Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. The way to move beyond leaks is to ensure a strong managing system for the public to access important information.
We are at a key moment where the visionaries in the leading position of a global digital age are clashing with those who are desperate to control what we know. WikiLeaks is the guerrilla front in a global movement for greater transparency and participation. It used to be that a leader controlled citizens by controlling information. Now it’ s harder than ever for the powerful to control what people read, see and hear. Technology gives people the ability to band together and challenge authority. The powerful have long spied on citizens as a means of control, now citizens are turning their collected eyes back upon the powerful.
This is a revolution, and all revolutions create fear and uncertainty. Will we move to a New Information Enlightenment or will the strong resistance from those who seek to maintain control no matter the cost lead us to a new totalitarianism? What happens in the next five years will define the future of democracy for the next century, so it would be well if our leaders responded to the current challenge with an eye on the future.
Politicians care much about the leak from WikiLeaks mainly because
选项
A、it posed a threat to digitisation.
B、it involved their own privacy.
C、it triggered the change of power.
D、it brought opportunities to them.
答案
C
解析
细节题。第三段前三句表明,以往政治家们对公众信息泄露并不很在意,而维基解密事件 引发的反应则完全不同(政治家们对此十分在意)。末句指出政治家们在意的原因:维基解密泄 露事件表明,“个人上传文件并把它呈现给全世界”的做法可以改变权力动态,即,会影响到权力 的改变,C选项正确。A、B选项利用文中个别词汇digital isation,privacy捏造干扰,从文中无法 推知。由第四段内容可知,维基解密事件表明技术可以打破社会障碍,显然,对政治家来说,它带 来的是危机,而不是机会,D选项与文意不符。
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