china daily雙語新聞：婚外情扯出網(wǎng)絡(luò)隱私安全
No matter how careful you are, it’s impossible to cover all your tracks when having an affair–US general David Petraeus found out the hard way.
不管你有多小心，想要完全掩蓋掉婚外情行徑也是不可能的，美國上將大衛(wèi)•彼得雷烏斯以身試法，教訓(xùn)慘痛。
Petraeus, 60, was caught having an extramarital relationship with his 40-year-old biographer Paula Broadwell, who is also married. The scandal forced him to resign as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Nov 9.
現(xiàn)年60歲的彼得雷烏斯被爆出出軌丑聞，對方是40歲的已婚傳記作家保拉•博德維。這樁丑聞迫使他不得不在11月9日辭去了美國中央情報局局長一職。
The affair was exposed after the FBI found intimate content in e-mails sent between the two. The scandal not only raised moral issues, but also threw online privacy and surveillance into the spotlight.
此前，聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局發(fā)現(xiàn)了二人之間親密曖昧的電子郵件，使得這段婚外情曝光。這樁丑聞不僅引發(fā)了道德問題，更是讓網(wǎng)絡(luò)隱私以及網(wǎng)絡(luò)監(jiān)控成為人們關(guān)注的焦點。
If a spymaster can’t prevent his personal e-mails from being snooped, what hope is there for the rest of us? Is online privacy just an illusion?
如果就連間諜頭頭都無法保證自己的私人電郵不被偷看，剩下我們這些普通人還指望什么呢？難道網(wǎng)絡(luò)隱私壓根不存在？
In fact, Petraeus and Broadwell were very discreet when communicating by e-mail. Not only were they using pseudonyms, they were also using a method known in the intelligence community as the “dead drop”.
事實上，彼得雷烏斯和博德維之間的在互通電郵時十分謹(jǐn)慎小心。他們不僅使用化名，還采取了情報機構(gòu)非常熟悉的手段，即“情報秘密傳遞點”。
According to Slate magazine, a dead drop is a tactic favored by terrorists trying to evade government surveillance of their communication networks.
美國《石板》雜志稱，情報秘密傳遞點是恐怖分子在試圖擺脫政府對其通訊網(wǎng)絡(luò)的監(jiān)控時，所采用的一種策略。
Before the Internet, dead drops, often used by spies, would involve hiding a written message or package in a secret location or letterbox that only fellow operatives would know about.
在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)出現(xiàn)之前，間諜通常采用這種方法，比如將信件或是包裹藏在一個只有自己人知道的秘密地點或信箱中。
According to an AP report, Petraeus and Broadwell used a high-tech version of this technique. Rather than sending messages by e-mail, they left them in a draft folder or in an electronic “dropbox”. The other person could then log on to the same account and read the draft e-mails there. This avoids creating an e-mail trail that is easier to trace.
美聯(lián)社的一份報告稱，彼得雷烏斯和博德維使用了高科技的情報秘密傳遞點。他們不通過電郵傳遞信息，而是將信息存放在草稿夾或秘密的電子郵箱里。另一個人便可以登陸同一賬號并讀取草稿郵件。從而避免產(chǎn)生更易于追蹤的電子郵件發(fā)送記錄。
But Petraeus should probably have known better. Using the dead drop tactic is not exactly secure. The same method was used by the perpetrators of the Madrid train bombing in 2004, which killed 191 people.
但是彼得雷烏斯本該更精于此道。使用這種秘密傳遞點的方法并不完全保險。制造2004年“馬德里火車爆炸案”的兇犯曾用過相同手法，該事件致使191人喪生。
Over the years, law enforcement agencies have grown accustomed to terrorists using the dead drop, and technologies have been developed to counter it.
這些年來，執(zhí)法機構(gòu)已經(jīng)對恐怖分子采用該方法習(xí)以為常了，也研究出了應(yīng)對手法。
The FBI also captured Broadwell’s IP address. With this, the identity of the person who sent an e-mail or visited a website can be tracked.
聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局還獲取了博德維的IP地址。通過該地址，發(fā)件人或訪問網(wǎng)站者的身份都可以被追蹤到。
Someone trying to remain anonymous can hide e-mails by routing them through different servers or using public computers that don’t keep activity logs. But often people make mistakes, leaving their e-mails traceable by investigators.
一些想要匿名的人可以使用不同的服務(wù)器，或是那些不記錄活動日志的公用電腦來發(fā)送郵件。但是人們經(jīng)常犯錯，使自己的郵件能夠被調(diào)查者追蹤到。
With cloud services and more storage capabilities, thousands of pages of e-mails that users think no longer exist may simply be stored out of sight but within easy reach of watchful authorities.
隨著云服務(wù)的出現(xiàn)以及存儲容量的增加，用戶以為不存在的成百上千封的電郵，只是被保存在你看不到的地方罷了，而警覺的政府部門則可以輕而易舉地獲得它們。
In Petraeus’ case, experts believe Google cooperated with authorities to access the e-mail accounts he and Broadwell used.
在彼得雷烏斯事件中，專家相信谷歌與政府部門合作，獲取了彼得雷烏斯與博德維的電郵賬戶。
Google acknowledges that it receives requests from government agencies around the world to “provide information about users of our services and products”, according to a policy statement it posted online.
從谷歌的一份網(wǎng)絡(luò)政策聲明中我們可以獲知，谷歌承認收到過全球許多政府機構(gòu)關(guān)于“提供使用谷歌各種服務(wù)以及產(chǎn)品的用戶信息”的要求。
Of all the free webmail services, Google collects the most data from users of its Gmail service, including IP addresses, key words in e-mail text, information from search queries and webpage visits.
在所有免費電郵服務(wù)中，谷歌收集了最為全面Gmail用戶數(shù)據(jù)信息，包括IP地址、電郵內(nèi)容的關(guān)鍵字、搜索信息和網(wǎng)頁訪問記錄。
So what are the lessons to be drawn from the general’s downfall? First, never cheat. Second, e-mails offer only limited privacy. Once an e-mail is sent, or even just saved as a draft, things are out of your control.
所以，我們可以從這位彼得雷烏斯上將的垮臺中學(xué)到什么呢？第一，永遠不要欺騙。第二，電郵只提供有限的隱私。一旦電郵發(fā)出去，哪怕即使是存到草稿箱，一切就由不得你了。
No matter how careful you are, it’s impossible to cover all your tracks when having an affair–US general David Petraeus found out the hard way.
不管你有多小心，想要完全掩蓋掉婚外情行徑也是不可能的，美國上將大衛(wèi)•彼得雷烏斯以身試法，教訓(xùn)慘痛。
Petraeus, 60, was caught having an extramarital relationship with his 40-year-old biographer Paula Broadwell, who is also married. The scandal forced him to resign as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Nov 9.
現(xiàn)年60歲的彼得雷烏斯被爆出出軌丑聞，對方是40歲的已婚傳記作家保拉•博德維。這樁丑聞迫使他不得不在11月9日辭去了美國中央情報局局長一職。
The affair was exposed after the FBI found intimate content in e-mails sent between the two. The scandal not only raised moral issues, but also threw online privacy and surveillance into the spotlight.
此前，聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局發(fā)現(xiàn)了二人之間親密曖昧的電子郵件，使得這段婚外情曝光。這樁丑聞不僅引發(fā)了道德問題，更是讓網(wǎng)絡(luò)隱私以及網(wǎng)絡(luò)監(jiān)控成為人們關(guān)注的焦點。
If a spymaster can’t prevent his personal e-mails from being snooped, what hope is there for the rest of us? Is online privacy just an illusion?
如果就連間諜頭頭都無法保證自己的私人電郵不被偷看，剩下我們這些普通人還指望什么呢？難道網(wǎng)絡(luò)隱私壓根不存在？
In fact, Petraeus and Broadwell were very discreet when communicating by e-mail. Not only were they using pseudonyms, they were also using a method known in the intelligence community as the “dead drop”.
事實上，彼得雷烏斯和博德維之間的在互通電郵時十分謹(jǐn)慎小心。他們不僅使用化名，還采取了情報機構(gòu)非常熟悉的手段，即“情報秘密傳遞點”。
According to Slate magazine, a dead drop is a tactic favored by terrorists trying to evade government surveillance of their communication networks.
美國《石板》雜志稱，情報秘密傳遞點是恐怖分子在試圖擺脫政府對其通訊網(wǎng)絡(luò)的監(jiān)控時，所采用的一種策略。
Before the Internet, dead drops, often used by spies, would involve hiding a written message or package in a secret location or letterbox that only fellow operatives would know about.
在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)出現(xiàn)之前，間諜通常采用這種方法，比如將信件或是包裹藏在一個只有自己人知道的秘密地點或信箱中。
According to an AP report, Petraeus and Broadwell used a high-tech version of this technique. Rather than sending messages by e-mail, they left them in a draft folder or in an electronic “dropbox”. The other person could then log on to the same account and read the draft e-mails there. This avoids creating an e-mail trail that is easier to trace.
美聯(lián)社的一份報告稱，彼得雷烏斯和博德維使用了高科技的情報秘密傳遞點。他們不通過電郵傳遞信息，而是將信息存放在草稿夾或秘密的電子郵箱里。另一個人便可以登陸同一賬號并讀取草稿郵件。從而避免產(chǎn)生更易于追蹤的電子郵件發(fā)送記錄。
But Petraeus should probably have known better. Using the dead drop tactic is not exactly secure. The same method was used by the perpetrators of the Madrid train bombing in 2004, which killed 191 people.
但是彼得雷烏斯本該更精于此道。使用這種秘密傳遞點的方法并不完全保險。制造2004年“馬德里火車爆炸案”的兇犯曾用過相同手法，該事件致使191人喪生。
Over the years, law enforcement agencies have grown accustomed to terrorists using the dead drop, and technologies have been developed to counter it.
這些年來，執(zhí)法機構(gòu)已經(jīng)對恐怖分子采用該方法習(xí)以為常了，也研究出了應(yīng)對手法。
The FBI also captured Broadwell’s IP address. With this, the identity of the person who sent an e-mail or visited a website can be tracked.
聯(lián)邦調(diào)查局還獲取了博德維的IP地址。通過該地址，發(fā)件人或訪問網(wǎng)站者的身份都可以被追蹤到。
Someone trying to remain anonymous can hide e-mails by routing them through different servers or using public computers that don’t keep activity logs. But often people make mistakes, leaving their e-mails traceable by investigators.
一些想要匿名的人可以使用不同的服務(wù)器，或是那些不記錄活動日志的公用電腦來發(fā)送郵件。但是人們經(jīng)常犯錯，使自己的郵件能夠被調(diào)查者追蹤到。
With cloud services and more storage capabilities, thousands of pages of e-mails that users think no longer exist may simply be stored out of sight but within easy reach of watchful authorities.
隨著云服務(wù)的出現(xiàn)以及存儲容量的增加，用戶以為不存在的成百上千封的電郵，只是被保存在你看不到的地方罷了，而警覺的政府部門則可以輕而易舉地獲得它們。
In Petraeus’ case, experts believe Google cooperated with authorities to access the e-mail accounts he and Broadwell used.
在彼得雷烏斯事件中，專家相信谷歌與政府部門合作，獲取了彼得雷烏斯與博德維的電郵賬戶。
Google acknowledges that it receives requests from government agencies around the world to “provide information about users of our services and products”, according to a policy statement it posted online.
從谷歌的一份網(wǎng)絡(luò)政策聲明中我們可以獲知，谷歌承認收到過全球許多政府機構(gòu)關(guān)于“提供使用谷歌各種服務(wù)以及產(chǎn)品的用戶信息”的要求。
Of all the free webmail services, Google collects the most data from users of its Gmail service, including IP addresses, key words in e-mail text, information from search queries and webpage visits.
在所有免費電郵服務(wù)中，谷歌收集了最為全面Gmail用戶數(shù)據(jù)信息，包括IP地址、電郵內(nèi)容的關(guān)鍵字、搜索信息和網(wǎng)頁訪問記錄。
So what are the lessons to be drawn from the general’s downfall? First, never cheat. Second, e-mails offer only limited privacy. Once an e-mail is sent, or even just saved as a draft, things are out of your control.
所以，我們可以從這位彼得雷烏斯上將的垮臺中學(xué)到什么呢？第一，永遠不要欺騙。第二，電郵只提供有限的隱私。一旦電郵發(fā)出去，哪怕即使是存到草稿箱，一切就由不得你了。