纪录片《深入暗网》 第20期 灵光一现

Well, I was driving from Berkeley to Santa Barbara

我当时正开车从伯克利去圣芭芭拉

along the coastline in my VW Camper van and

开着我的大众露营车沿着海岸线走

out of nowhere... You know, it was beautiful scenery,

突然地... 车窗外景色优美

I was just driving along and it occurred to me

我开着车 就突然想到了

how to solve this problem

如何来解决

I'd been trying to solve for a long time.

这个长久以来我努力想解决的问题

Yeah, it was a kind of a, you know, a eureka-moment type.

这就好像是 灵光一现

I felt like, "Hey, this is it."

"没错 就是这样"

Chaum's focus was the pattern of communications that

乔姆将焦点对准计算机

a computer made on the network.

在网络中的通讯模式

If that pattern could be disguised¹ using cryptography,

如果该模式可以通过加密来伪装

it would be harder for anyone watching to identify individuals

这将使监视者识别个体的过程变得困难

and carry out effective surveillance,

从而无法实施有效监控

and Chaum's system had a twist.

乔姆的系统有了意想不到的进展

Cryptography has traditionally been used

加密技术一直被用来

to provide secrecy² for message content

对信息内容加密

and so I used this message secrecy technology of encryption

因此我用这种保护信息的加密技术

to actually protect the meta-data of who talks to who and when,

来保护有关人们交谈对象以及时间的元数据

and that was quite a paradigm³ shift.

这是个典型的范例式转变

1 disguised   

v.假扮( disguise的过去式和过去分词 )；化装；伪装；掩盖

参考例句：

• The hijackers were heavily disguised. 劫持者伪装得严严实实。
• The chieftain of that country is disguised as a benefactor this time. 那个国家的首领这一次伪装出一副施恩者的姿态。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 secrecy   

n.秘密，保密，隐蔽

参考例句：

• All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy.该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
• Complete secrecy surrounded the meeting.会议在绝对机密的环境中进行。

3 paradigm   

n.例子，模范，词形变化表

参考例句：

• He had become the paradigm of the successful man. 他已经成为成功人士的典范。
• Moreover,the results of this research can be the new learning paradigm for digital design studios.除此之外，本研究的研究成果也可以为数位设计课程建立一个新的学习范例。