Moving towards a time of passwordless infrastructure迈向无密码式基础设施的时代

王玉秀

保护密码最好的方案，就是放弃密码。但想真正告别纯密码登录体系进入“无密码时代”，我们还需要一段时间。

主题语境：科技与信息 篇幅：322词 建议用时：6分钟

1 Do you hate remembering passwords？ Soon，you may be able to forget them. For years， weverelied on a secret we share with a computer toprove we are who we say we are. But passwordsare easily compromised through a phishing scam（钓鱼式欺诈） or computer virus or some simplesocial engineering. Once in the wrong hands，these strings of characters can be used to fake our identities all over the Internet.

2 Slowly， were kicking the password habit. The pressure is on to find more foolproof（万无一失的） ways to confirm someones identity.“We are moving into a world whichwere calling passwordless， which is the ability for our applications， devices and com?puters to recognize us by something other than the old ? fashioned password，”saysWolfgang Goerlich， advisory chief information security officer for Ciscoownedsecurity firm Duo.

3 Newer forms of identification are harder to imitate： something we are （such as theshape of our face） or something we have （physical objects such as security keys）. Forexample， let users sign into mobile apps with a fingerprint or facial recognition or their phones passcode instead of a password.4 Goerlich estimates that within five years， we could be logging into most of our onlineaccounts the same way we unlock our phones. And then we will be able to finally break upwith passwords. However， any system that depends on a single factor isnt secure enough，according to Vijay Balasubramaniyan， CEO of Pindrop， a voice authentication （身份驗证）and security company. Biometric information such as a fingerprint can be stolen， too， andyou cant change it.

5 He predicts several pieces of information will be used to confirm identity. Machineswill analyze our speech patterns or scan our fingerprints. Well also be identified by somethingwe have and something we do.“Long road to cover. Secrets always get out. Its goingto be scary，”he says，“but， its time for consumers to demand a higher level of privacy andsecurity.”

Reading Check

1. Why can we possibly break up with passwords？

A. The apps dont need passwords anymore.

B. Using passwords means being out of style.

C. There are newer ways to recognize identity.

D. Passwords can be the worst way to keep secrets.

2. What can we learn about ways to protect privacy？

A. Nowadays people dont like to use passwords at all.

B. Fingerprints are a foolproof way to confirm our identity.

C. People have already made a perfect plan to protect our privacy.

D. New ways may be better than passwords， but they still have risks.

3. Where does the text most probably come from？

A. A research report. B. A science magazine.

C. A health website. D. An advertisement.

Difficult sentences

1. For years， weve relied on a secret we share with a computer to prove we are who we say we are. 多年来，我们一直依赖于与电脑共享的秘密来证明我们即本人。

【点石成金】本句含省略关系词的定语从句we share with a computer，修饰a secret，to prove...为动词不定式作目的状语。

2. We are moving into a world which were calling passwordless， which is the ability for our applications， devices and computers to recognize us by something other than the oldfashioned password. 我们正在进入一个我们称之为“无密码”的世界，即我们的应用程序、设备和计算机能够通过传统密码以外的东西来识别我们。

【点石成金】本句的主干为We are moving into a world，其后含which（第一个）引导的定语从句，修饰a world，且which在从句中作宾语，以及which（第二个）引导的非限制性定语从句，且which在从句中作主语。