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Network Safety A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute musi

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问题                             Network Safety
    A House committee is reopening its investigation of Internet services that let computer users distribute music and movies online amid reports the same software was exploited to gain unauthorized access to government and private data.
    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters to the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and The Lime Group, which runs Lime Wire, a popular file-sharing service. The letters, signed by chairman Edolphus Towns, sought information about any such breaches and what the Obama administration and company are doing, to protect against them.
    Internet file-sharing links computers across the Internet and allows users to access files stored on any other computer within the network. In the past, these networks have been popular among people who distribute popular music, movies and commercial software without paying legally required copyright fees.
    The House committee held hearings in 2007. The problem of pirated music has since declined due to rising popularity of legal services such as iTunes, concerns over the threat of personal lawsuits by the entertainment industry and efforts by colleges to limit illicit data traffic on their computer networks. Lime Wire is the largest remaining such network popular among computer users.
    Witnesses at the earlier hearings "easily obtained bank records, health records, military files, tax returns, corporate documents, and other highly sensitive private ides via the Lime Wire network", Towns and Issa wrote to Mark Gorton, chairman of The Lime Group.
    They recalled that Gorton told lawmakers he would make significant changes in the software to prevent inadvertent disclosures of personal or confidential information over the Internet service.
"However, it appears that nearly two years after your commitment to make significant changes in the software, Lime Wire and other P2P (peer-to-peer) providers have not taken adequate steps to address this critical problem," Towns and Issa wrote.
    Asked about the renewed investigation, Lime Wire spokeswoman Linda Lipman responded, "we at Lime Wire understand that Internet safety is the most important, and we strive to offer peer-to-peer’s most secure technology." She said the company had worked with other P2P providers and regulators to develop and implement protections, including changes in default settings; file-sharing controls; shared folder configurations; and sensitive-file-type restrictions.
    "Our newest version, Lime Wire 5.0, by default, does not share sensitive file types such as spreadsheets or documents," Lipman said. "In fact, the software does not share any file or directory without explicit permission from the user."
What is the main topic of this passage?
选项 A、Lawmakers re-examine Internet-sharing softwares.
B、Users gain unauthorized access to government and private data through Lime Wire.
C、Lime Group improves its new version Lime Wire 5.0 in Internet safety.
D、The hearing held in 2007 made a difference to the problem of Internet safety.
答案A
解析 主旨大意题。本文主要讲的是法律制定者重新启动对给用户提供共享文件而泄露私人和机密数据的软件公司的调查。[A]“法律制定者重新检查网络共享软件”与原文一致。[B]“用户通过使用Lime Wire可以非法获得政府和私人的信息”、[C]“Lime Wire在其新版本上改进了网络安全性“、[D]“2007年的听证会使网络安全问题有很大的改观"均不是本文的主要内容，故排除。
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