首页
登录
职称英语
Nowadays, no document is safe any more. Counterfeiting, once the domain of
Nowadays, no document is safe any more. Counterfeiting, once the domain of
游客
2023-09-08
36
管理
问题
Nowadays, no document is safe any more. Counterfeiting, once the domain of skilled deceivers that used expensive engraving and printing equipment, has gone mainstream since the price of desktop-publishing systems has dropped. In ancient times, counterfeiting was a hanging offence. Today, desktop counterfeiters have little reason to worry about prison, because the systems they use are ubiquitous(普遍存在的)and there is no means of tracing forged documents to the machine that produced them. This, however, may soon change thanks to technology development by George Chiu, an anti-counterfeiting engineer.
His approach is based on detecting imperfections in the print quality of documents. Old-school court scientists were able to trace documents to particular typewriters based on quirks (沟槽) of the individual keys. He employs a similar approach, exploiting the fact that the rotating(转动)drums and mirrors inside a printer are imperfect pieces of engineering which, leave unique patterns of banding in their products.
Although these patterns are invisible to the naked eye, they can be detected and analyzed by computer programs, and it is these that Dr. Chiu has spent the past year devising. So far, he cannot trace individual printers, but he can tell pretty reliably which make and model of printer was used to create a document.
That, however, is only the beginning. While it remains to be seen whether it will be possible to trace a counterfeit document back to its guilty creator on the basis of manufacturing imperfections, Dr. Chiu is now working out ways to make those imperfections deliberate. He wants to modify the printing process so that unique, invisible signatures can be incorporated into each machine produced which would make any document traceable.
Ironically, it was after years of collaborating with printing companies to reduce banding and thus increase the quality of prints, that he Came up with the idea of introducing artificial banding that could encode identification information into a document. Using the banding patterns of printers to secure documents would be both cheap to implement and hard, if not impossible, for those without specialist knowledge and hardware to evade.
Not surprising, the American Secret Service is monitoring the progress of this research very closely, and is providing guidelines to help Dr. Chin to travel in what the service thinks is the right direction, which is fine for catching criminals. But how the legitimate users of printers will react to Big Brother being able to track any document back to his source remains to be seen. [br] It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ______.
选项
A、Dr. Chiu will be remembered for his special contribution
B、the tracking of all documents might result in controversies
C、American Secret Service is heavily financing Dr. Chiu’s research
D、printer manufacturers are reluctant to implement deliberate banding
答案
B
解析
原文最后一句说“但是打印机的合法用户对老大(政府)能够追踪任何文件来源如何反应还仍不可知”。由此可以推测其言外之意也即B项“追踪所有文件的来源可能会引发争议”,故为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2996639.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]M:Nowadays,almostalljobadvertisementscallforgoodcommunic
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting.oncethedomainof
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting.oncethedomainof
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting.oncethedomainof
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting.oncethedomainof
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting,oncethedomainof
Nowadays,nodocumentissafeanymore.Counterfeiting,oncethedomainof
Nowadays,somethinghasgoneterriblywrongwithouronce-proudAmericanwa
Nowadays,somethinghasgoneterriblywrongwithouronce-proudAmericanwa
Nowadays,somethinghasgoneterriblywrongwithouronce-proudAmericanwa
随机试题
[originaltext]W:Goodmorning,Dr.Morgan.Welcometo"TheFutureWorld".M:Th
A.claimB.advancedC.challengeD.butE.constantlyF.declareG.pilesupH.
Thepiechartbelowshowsthepercentageofeachcarcolor(red,blue,whiteand
Thegovernmentistobanpaymentstowitnessesbynewspapersseekingtobuy
A.病原体被消灭或排出体外 B.病原携带状态 C.隐性感染 D.潜在性感染
患者,女,38岁。眩晕,自汗;心悸,失眠,多梦,腹胀便溏,食少,体倦,面色无华。
甲企业只生产销售一种产品,2017年度该产品的销售数量为1000件,单价为18元
当采用干燥器法测定人造木板及其制品的游离甲醛释放时,不应大于()mg/LA
对于一个具有一定医学知识的长期慢性病成年患者,所适用的医患关系模式是() A.
某施工现场有塔式起重机1台,由施工企业租得,台班单价5000元/台班,租赁费为2
最新回复
(
0
)