访谈录 2008-09-23&09-24 美军方 VS 黑客

Get ready to run.

In the thriller¹ Live Free or Die Hard, Bruce Willis takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization, trying to shut down the United States, starting with traffic signals. It's a scenario² that the US military worries someday may be real. The next war may also find US troops on the offence in cyberspace³.

But I think we need to get ready and get set to be able to allow our forces to essentially⁴ leverage⁵ the cyber world.

Cyber-warfare is so sensitive that Pentagon refused to provide any official to speak on camera. The Air Force is considering establishing a separate organization just to handle it.

Some people are talking about the things that belong in the movies, not at the Pentagon.

But this recently declassified⁶ national military strategy for cyberspace operations spells out the Pentagon strategy: superiority in cyberspace, and says troops must be able to conduct the full range of military operations in and through cyberspace. It's more than just shutting down the other guide systems. Experts say the idea, use cyber attacks to disable aircraft, make radars⁷ go blank, and even plant false intelligence in the enemy computers.

It's never gonna take the place of hot steel on target.

The Pentagon is already concerned about Chinese and Russian cyber-tricks. It's thought Moscow was behind recent attacks on Georgian government websites.

Go, let's go, finish this up.

Real cyber-war, however, may not look very hollywood.

Well, combat in cyberspace is mainly gonna look like a bunch of people sitting at keyboards and staring at screens. It is probably not going to be as exciting as it is in the movies.

1 thriller   

n.惊险片，恐怖片

参考例句：

• He began by writing a thriller.That book sold a million copies.他是写惊险小说起家的。那本书卖了一百万册。
• I always take a thriller to read on the train.我乘火车时，总带一本惊险小说看。

2 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

3 cyberspace   

n.虚拟信息空间，网络空间，计算机化世界

参考例句：

• She travels in cyberspace by sending messages to friends around the world.她利用电子空间给世界各地的朋友们发送信件。
• The teens spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.青少年花费在电脑上的时间比他们和真正的朋友及家人在一起的时间要多。

4 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

5 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

6 declassified   

adj.解密的v.对（机密文件等）销密( declassify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Thousands of classified documents have now been declassified. 数以千计的保密文件现在被解密了。
• The software used for Siemens S7-300 encryption logic block declassified. 此软件用于对西门子S7-300加密逻辑块解密。

7 radars   

n.雷达( radar的名词复数 )；雷达装置

参考例句：

• Servos for large radars and launchers are either electro-hydraulic or all-electric. 大型雷达和发射装置的伺服系统，不是电动-液压式的，就是全电动式的。 来自辞典例句
• Range-velocity simultaneous pull-off is one of effective measures for countering PD radars. 距离-速度同步拖引干扰是对抗PD雷达的有效方法。 来自互联网