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The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smart-phone is the climax of a slow turning
The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smart-phone is the climax of a slow turning
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2016-12-28
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问题
The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smart-phone is the climax of
a slow turning of the tables
between the technology industry and the United States government.
On the one side, you have the United States government’ s mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer’s phone. The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif, in December.
In the other corner is the world’ s most valuable company, whose chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, has said he will appeal the court’ s order. Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any government intruder, anywhere.
There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
Yet underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation. They have our data, and their businesses depend on the global public’ s collective belief that they will do everything they can to protect that data.
Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide. If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what’ s to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Chinese or the Iranians? Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist at tack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.
Yet it’ s worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time. "If they’re anywhere near worth their salt as engineers, I bet they’re rethinking their threat model as we speak," said Jonathan Zdziarski, who studies the iPhone and its vulnerabilities.
In Paragraph 1, "a slow turning of the tables" probably means______.
选项
A、fighting under the table
B、reversing a situation slowly
C、beating the opponent slowly
D、performing a good drama
答案
B
解析
根据题干关键词定位到第一段。根据The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smartphone is the climax of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government.可知战争发生在技术行业和美国政府之间,双方争论的起点是美国政府要求苹果公司破解一部恐怖分子使用过的手机,而这一事件使双方的争夺进入高潮。turn the table为一句谚语,意为“扭转局面”,a slow turning of the tables意为“缓慢扭转局面”,故B项为正确答案。A项“在桌面下较量”、C项“缓慢打败对手”和D项“表演好话剧”均不符合题意,故排除。
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