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新华网8月5日电 美国科技博客Gizmodo4日刊文称，美国黑客自制的廉价间谍电脑引发人们对网络隐私安全的担忧。
你经常使用不安全的Wi-Fi无线网络吗？哪怕你只是在星巴克快速的输入密码登陆社交网站，就已经足够危险了，因为制造秘密间谍电脑，盗取你的全部资料实在是易如反掌，而且成本低廉。
安全研究员布伦丹·奥康纳是网络安全咨询公司 Malice Afterthought的创始人，在世界最大的黑客会议DEF CON上展示了他的新玩具骇人DOL，有点像黑客自行制作的廉价棱镜盒。
配有25美元的树莓派（Raspberry Pi）和几个适配器包括无线Wi-Fi网络每个骇人DOL的成本只要57美元，相对于盗取的数据，其造价着实低廉。但真正恐怖的是，奥康纳可以用这些部件形成一个网络，一旦获取足够的数据，便可以识别你的特定装置。
《纽约时报》提到了一些令人担忧的可能性：
你可以通过在前男/女朋友经常光顾的附近放置一个传感盒，来实施窥探。窥探对象还可以是你未成年的孩子，或者某个社区的居民。你可以监控在某间房子里做礼拜的人们，也可以监控在广场上参加抗议示威的人们。奥康纳先生认为，如果这些人把手机和平板电脑连接到不安全的无线网络，一些相关信息必定会泄露。这些传感盒体积很小，可以藏在咖啡桌下，或者从无人机上扔下。总之，他们有可能存在于城市的任何角落，却不被发现。
当然，奥康纳没有做这种事，但是如果他可以这么做的话意味着其他人也都可以。在数码时代，这种监控让人们开始担心网络安全问题，但这是数码世界固有的产物，很难规避。在此之前，你可能还以为只要防着国家安全局就足够了。
（译者：高菲）
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Disposable Spy Computers Are Disturbingly Easy and Cheap to Make
Be honest, how often do you use unsecured Wi-Fi for something you shouldn"t? You know, just a quick Facebook login at Starbucks. If you"ve done it even once, that"s too much, because making a secret spy computer that can steal all that data is dumb easy. And cheap to boot.
Brendan O"Connor, security researcher, founder of the consulting firm Malice Afterthought, and mind behind the F-BOMB, has been showing off his newest toy at DEF CON. It"s called creepyDOL, and it"s like a budget PRISM-box for DIY hackers.
With a $25 Raspberry Pi and a handful of adapters—including Wi-Fi—each creepyDOL box costs a mere $57 in parts, and is worth its weight in stolen data. But the really scary stuff is what O"Connor can rig up the units to do as a network once they"ve got enough data to identify your specific gadgets.
The New York Times explains some of the creepy possibilities:
You could spy on your ex-lover, by placing the sensor boxes near the places the person frequents, or your teenage child, or the residents of a particular neighborhood. You could keep tabs on people who gather at a certain house of worship or take part in a protest demonstration in a town square. Their phones and tablets, Mr. O"Connor argued, would surely leak some information about them and certainly if they then connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi. The boxes are small enough to be tucked under a cafe table or dropped from a hobby drone. They can be scattered around a city and go unnoticed.
Granted, O"Connor isn"t doing any of this stuff, but if he could, so could just about anyone else. This kind of surveillance preys on insecurity, that"s pretty inherent to digital world as it is today, so it"s hard to hide from. And you thought it was enough to just worry about the NSA. (来源：新华国际)
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