美國網路間諜行動遭遇“斯諾登第二”
The CIA’s cyber-espionage operations were at risk of being laid bare yesterday after WikiLeaks published what it claimed was a large trove of documents detailing the US agency’s techniques for hacking into smartphones, internet-connected TVs and other devices.
美國中央情報局(CIA)的網路間諜行動昨日陷入嚴重洩密風險，此前維基解密(WikiLeaks)發表了大量檔案，稱這些檔案詳細介紹了這家美國情報機構侵入智慧手機、網際網路連線的電視機和其他裝置的方法。The documents purported to reveal a stockpile of malware used by the CIA to break into some of today’s most widely-used technologies, including phones and tablets running on Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS.
這些檔案據稱揭露了CIA所用的多種惡意軟體，其目的是破解當今使用最廣泛的一些技術，包括在谷歌(Google)的Android作業系統和蘋果(Apple)的iOS上執行的手機和平板電腦。By taking control of smartphones in this way, WikiLeaks claimed the agency was able to get around the protections built into encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, which have gained in popularity as many users have looked for stronger protection from prying eyes.
維基解密聲稱，通過以這種方式控制智慧手機，CIA能夠繞過加密的訊息傳遞服務（如WhatsApp、Telegram和 Signal）內建的保護；隨著許多使用者尋求更強的隱私保護手段，此類服務近來人氣上升。
The release echoed the big dump of National Security Agency documents handed to reporters in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which caused an international political storm. It exposed fissures between Washington and some of the largest US tech companies, which found their products had come under attack by their own government.
此次爆料帶有2013年斯諾登事件的回聲；那一次，美國國家安全域性(NSA)前合同工愛德華?斯諾登(Edward Snowden)向記者洩露海量NSA檔案，引發一場國際政治風暴。它暴露了華盛頓方面和美國一些最大的科技公司之間的矛盾，後者發現自己的產品遭到本國政府的攻擊。WikiLeaks claimed that the trove of CIA information it had obtained, which it called Vault 7, included “several hundred million lines of code”, including many of the agency’s cyberweapons. It published close to 9,000 documents and files and said it would only reveal details of the malware and other cyberweapons after it had been “analysed, disarmed and published”.
維基解密將其獲得的這批CIA資訊稱為“7號保險庫”(Vault 7)，稱這些資訊包含“幾億行程式碼”，包括CIA擁有的很多網路武器。它釋出了近9000份檔案和文件，並稱，將在“分析、解除武裝和發表”之後，公佈惡意軟體和其他網路武器的詳細資訊。
“The archive appears to have been circulated among former US government hackers and contractors in an unauthorised manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive,” it said.
“這批文件似乎以未經授權的方式在美國政府的前黑客和合同工中間流傳，其中一人向維基解密提供了部分檔案，”維基解密稱。The disclosures will raise new questions about government use of so-called “zero day” exploits, or malware that takes advantage of previously unidentified flaws in common technology products.
此次爆料將引發有關政府使用所謂“零日”漏洞（利用常見技術產品中之前沒有發現的缺陷的惡意軟體）的新問題。Security experts warn that by using these tools for espionage or law enforcement, agencies like the CIA risk releasing powerful cyberweapons into wider use, helping criminals and terrorists.
安全專家們警告，通過使用這些工具進行間諜活動或執法，CIA等機構有可能釋放強大的網路武器讓更多人使用，從而幫助罪犯和恐怖分子。The Obama administration promised to severely limit its collection of such tools after the Snowden revelations. WikiLeaks said the files it had obtained included “dozens of ‘zero day’ weaponised exploits”.
在斯諾登洩密後，奧巴馬政府曾承諾嚴格限制其對此類工具的收藏。維基解密稱，它獲得的檔案包括“幾十個武器化的‘零日’攻擊手段”。
