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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 first two paragraphs, which of the following statements is true of the existing spy-phone software?
选项 A、It can be automatically installed if only a call is made.
B、It requires no special technique and training in using the software.
C、It is only usable in certain types of mobile phones.
D、It allows users to check other people’s call log and phone bills.
答案B
解析 本题没有关键词，可以直接定位原文前两段。第一段第三句说，间谍手机软件“传送也不需要特别的技术(transfer requires no special skill)”；第二段第一句说，新一代间谍手机软件便于用户操作(user-friendly)。因此，选项B与原文是相同含义，是正确选项。选项A属于无中生有，第一段第四句说，传送窃听程序“需要控制你的手机，按键允许下载才行”，并不是只要接通电话就可以自行安装(automatically installed)。选项C属于缩小范围，第一段第二句说间谍软件可以安装到“任何一部手机”，并非“某些特定型号 (certain types)的手机”。选项D属于无中生有，第二段最后一句说，“被窃听对象却一无所知：通话记录和电话账单里都没有秘密传输数据的记录”，不是说用户可以检查别人的通话记录和电话账单。第一段：间谍手机软件可以把窃听程序无线传送到任何一部手机。
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