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Most people don’t leave their front door unlocked, and the same is true of their home Wi-Fi networks. But some believe that prev
Most people don’t leave their front door unlocked, and the same is true of their home Wi-Fi networks. But some believe that prev
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2014-02-25
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Most people don’t leave their front door unlocked, and the same is true of their home Wi-Fi networks. But some believe that preventing access to your wireless Internet actually does more harm than good. Peter Eckersley of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation devoted to defending digital rights, is calling for an "Open Wireless Movement" and encouraging people to be "socially responsible" by sharing their connection.
Eckersley compares the current situation of locked-down networks to "finding yourself parched(干透的)and thirsty while everyone around you is sipping from nice tall glasses of iced water", and offers a technological solution. We restrict access to our networks for two reasons: to prevent other people from using up our bandwidth, and to ensure our security and privacy.
He suggests we can still protect ourselves from both problems by using routers(路由器)that share a certain amount of bandwidth in the open while also providing an encrypted(加密的)connection for personal use, but such technology already exists, and people aren’t choosing to use it.
Perhaps the problem is not technological, but legal, as home users don’t want to be responsible for the activities of others on their network. Quite understandable, really. But Eckersley says that "individuals can enjoy the same legal protections against liability as any other Internet access provider", but the law is far from clear in this area and differs from country to country.
In a footnote on his article, Eckersley says US law "may" offer protection, but that didn’t prevent a man who left his network open from being called a paedophile(恋童癖者)by armed police in his living room this past weekend. Courts in Germany have previously ruled that people can be fined if they allow unauthorised users to access illegal materials through their connection, while in the UK disputes over recent changes to the law leave the matter uncertain.
Perhaps these legal concerns can be overcome by turning to an unlikely role-model — Estonia, where access to the Internet is a legal human right. The country is blanketed in a network of free Wi-Fi access points in cafes, bars and other public locations, allowing people to easily get online almost anywhere. So who wants to open up their network first?
What information can be got about Estonia from the passage?
选项
A、It restricts free access to Internet.
B、Free Wi-Fi is set up all over the country.
C、It is impossible for other countries to follow its suit.
D、Its people can get free Wi-Fi access almost everywhere.
答案
D
解析
根据题干中的专有名词Estonia将本题出处定位于倒数第二段。该段第1、2句提到在爱沙尼亚,访问互联网是一项合法的公民权利,这个国家被咖啡店、酒吧和其他公共场所内的免费无线网接入点覆盖,这使得人们几乎在任何地方都能轻松自由地上网。由此可知在爱沙尼亚,人们几乎在哪儿都可以使用无线网络,D)与此意一致,故为答案。A)与文中提到的在爱沙尼亚访问互联网是合法的公民权利不符。根据第2句前半句可知,无线网络主要设置在公共场所,故排除B)。C)是对文中an unlikely role-model的错误理解。
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