All apps collect data as you use them. Following these four steps will help ensure you’re not oversharing. For starters, download apps only from the App Store, not from random websites.
Before you accept an app’s terms and conditions, look at what information it’s planning to collect and think twice if it’s asking for too many permissions.
Sign up using an e-mail address you’ve set up just for things like app permissions and e-mail newsletters.
| A．Just be sure to offload out apps. |
| B．And, of course, use a secure password. |
| C．How will you ever remember them all? |
| D．These apps meet the major companies’ quality standards. |
| E．Don’t use your main e-mail address or social media account. |
| F．Do you have an old smartphone you’re not using anymore? |
| G．For example, why would a gaming app need access to text messages? |
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There's a huge power in knowing how to make adjustments（调整，调节） in life. In fact, it's possible to turn failure into success by making the right adjustments. The trick is in knowing where the adjustment is needed and how much.
We call people who have the ability to make the best life adjustments happy. And on the other hand we call people who refuse or neglect to make adjustments sador confused.
Whatever your stage in life, age or financial (经济的) level, everyone will face what I call the 3 C's. The 3 C's are changes, challenges and choices. The person who handles the 3 C's the best we call happy and well adjusted.
One obstacle many people trip over is assuming money will help them make the best life adjustments. Wrong! It may help in some ways, but even money won't help unless you have the knowledge and put in the effort. For instance, it is not hard to find wealthy people who find it hard to deal with the challenges, changes and choices of life.
So, what's one of the key factors of people who fail to live up to their potential(潜力)? They fail to make life adjustments when faced with changes, challenges or choices.
Here are 3 simple but powerful tips to help you make effective life adjustments when faced with the 3 C's or changes, challenges and choices.
Learn To Think With Your Eyes And Ears
When you learn how to think with your eyes we call that observation and when you learn how to think with your ears we call that hearing. Most people see but few people know how to observe. The difference between seeing and observing is like the difference between reading and studying.
The same goes with listening. It only requires ears to hear, but it often takes awareness and thought to listen. One factor in helping you to listen better is to hear not only what people say but what they don't say. Reading body language and voice change can help you listen between the lines. All these play an effective role in helping you to think with your eyes and ears.
Learn To Go With The Flow
The people who learn to make the best life adjustments develop the habit of going with the flow. For example, they refuse to worry too much about the small affairs and remain flexible to life changes. The best way to do that is to trust your instincts(直觉). The more you do that, the more they will work for you.
Worry tends to ruin your God-given instincts. Notice people who can go with the flow and you'll find a person with sharp instincts.
Be Prepared For Changes, Challenges And Choices
If you can keep an attitude of preparation you'll have the best chance of making effective life adjustments. What kind? The kind that can see you through problems, setbacks and challenges.
As the saying goes, “If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.” That's the best advice for anyone who wants to make the best life adjustments and win!
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| Outlines | Supporting details |
| Introduction | Failure can turn into success when the right adjustments are made. |
| 3C’s stand for changes, challenges and choices. And people goodat | |
| Wrong | Money |
| Three tips | Learn to * Different from seeing, observation means thinking with eyes. * |
| Learn to go with the flow. * Adapting to life changes without being * | |
| Be prepared for 3C’s. With an attitude of preparation, it is more |
【推荐2】While the internet is a great place for learning, socialising and having fun, it can also come with some danger. It’s understandable that you may want to stop your children from ever going online in order to protect them.
1. Be honest about the dangers
As soon as your kids are old enough to get online, have an age-appropriate chat with them about what they could meet with. Be honest about the issue of scammers(骗子)and advise them to come to you if they come across such incidents. Let them know that the anonymity(匿名)of the internet allows people to pretend to be someone they’re not so.
2. Encourage them to speak up
Flag certain behaviours or incidents that they should immediately alert you to. These include someone they don’t know trying to communicate with them online, coming across inappropriate sites, and someone threatening them online.
3.Let them know that they won’t be punished
Your kids may be scared to tell you if they’ve encountered trouble online for fear that you may stop the usage of their phone or computer .
4.
Make it absolutely clear that there are a few things that are completely out of bounds(界限). These include meeting up with anyone they got to know online whom they don’t know in real life, giving away any personal information such as their address or phone number, or your credit card details, and posting personal photos or videos that they wouldn’t be comfortable sharing with the world.
5. Spend time with your kids online
Sit with them when they’re using the computer or phone.
| A．Find out what sites they’re using or games they’re playing. |
| B．Set rules for what they shouldn’t do. |
| C．However, it’s far better to equip them with the right skills so they will be able to deal with dangerous situations. |
| D．Make it clear that you won’t punish them for being honest. |
| E．Completely stopping them using Internet is the best way. |
| F．Just as they wouldn’t trust strangers in real life, they need to be extra careful online. |
| G．Internet is a place filled with danger |
【推荐3】Plan a Day of Leaf Peeping (观赏秋叶)
Autumn can be a great season to experience the outdoors with your friends and family. One popular activity is leaf peeping-spending time outdoors admiring the changing colors of the leaves.
Understand the science
Some trees have green leaves most of the year due to the chlorophyll (叶绿素) they use to absorb energy from the sun. As the day gets colder and shorter in the fall, the leaves get less sunlight, which causes the green to fade and reveal other colors.
Pick a destination
You can experience fall leaves in almost every state in the USA. Depending on where you live, you might want to plan to head out into the countryside or mountains to see the best leaves.
Once you have your destination set, it’s time to go further planning. You can visit the Internet to see when the leaves are expected to change colors at your planned destination. You’ll notice that leaves first start to change in more northern areas, then later in more southern areas.
Document your observations
When you head out to look at the fall landscape, keep a visual record of what you see. You can use a camera to take photos of some of your favorite sights. You can get creative, such as by lying on the ground and capturing the colorful leaves above you, or taking a close-up of an especially beautiful leaf.
| A．Time your trip |
| B．Set the first destination |
| C．Let's start learning about leaves |
| D．Here is some practical advice for getting started |
| E．You may preserve the beauty of the fall forever through it |
| F．You may first talk to your parents about planning a day out |
| G．After the leaves change colors, they eventually fall to the ground |
【推荐1】Despite all the reports of Internet security attacks over the years, including the recent ones on Google’s e-mail service, many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug(耸肩).
Mr. Shulman and his company examined a list of 32 million passwords that an unknown hacker stole last month from RockYou, a company that makes software for users of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. The list was briefly posted on the Web, and hackers and security researchers downloaded it.
The list provided an unusually detailed window into computer users’ password habits. Typically, only government agencies like the F.B.I. or the National Security Agency have had access to such a large password list.
Some Web sites try to keep back the attackers by freezing an account for a certain period of time if too many incorrect passwords are typed. But experts say that the hackers simply learn to trick the system, by making guesses at an acceptable rate, for instance.
To improve security, some Web sites are forcing users to mix letters, numbers and even symbols in their passwords. Others, like Twitter, prevent people from picking common passwords.
Still, researchers say, social networking and entertainment Web sites often try to make life simpler for their users and are reluctant to put too many controls in place.
Even commercial sites like eBay must weigh the consequences of freezing accounts, since a hacker could, say, try to win an auction(拍卖) by freezing the accounts of other potential buyers.
But owing to the reality of our overcrowded brains, the experts suggest that everyone choose at least two different passwords — a complex one for Web sites where security is vital, such as banks and e-mail, and a simpler one for less risky places, such as social networking and entertainment sites.
Mr. Moss relies on passwords at least 12 characters long, figuring that those make him a more difficult target than the millions of people who choose five-and-six-character passwords.
“It’s like the joke where the hikers run into a bear in the forest, and the hiker that survives is the one who outruns his companions,” Mr. Moss said. “You just want to run that bit faster.
1. The underlined sentence “many people have reacted to the break-ins with a shrug” shows that many people ______.| A．don’t take seriously the hacker’s break-ins |
| B．are worried and frightened at the hacker’s break-ins |
| C．don’t know what to do with the hacker’s attacks |
| D．are eager to get helps from the experts |
| A．A social web site. |
| B．An entertainment web site. |
| C．A commercial web site. |
| D．A government web site. |
| A．mix letters, numbers and symbols as well |
| B．choose passwords with at least 12 characters |
| C．choose passwords with 5 or 6 characters |
| D．choose at least two different passwords |
| A．Password, Simple or Complex? |
| B．Popular Passwords, High Risk! |
| C．Clever Hackers, Stupid Netizens. |
| D．Hacker, the Enemy of Internet Security. |
【推荐2】Typing your password or credit card number into a computer is a moment’s work. But if you think your personal details disappear as soon as you hit the Return key, think again: they can sit on the computer’s hard disk for years waiting for a hacker to rip them off.
As people spend more time on the web and hackers become more sophisticated, the dangers of storing personal information on computers are growing by the day, security experts say. There are some safeguards, such as never allowing your computer to store your passwords. But even that is no guarantee of security.
When you type in a password, it is stored in random access memory (RAM), where it is held temporarily until other data overwrites it or the computer is switched off.
But every so often, the computer copies the contents of its RAM onto hard disk, where it is easy prey for a hacker, who can read it directly or design a worm to e-mail it back. The longer sensitive data stays in RAM, the more likely it is to be copied onto the disk, where it stays until it is overwritten—which might not happen for years.
Tal Garfinkel and colleagues from Stanford University have created a software tool which simulates the workings of a complete computer system. Within the simulation, sensitive data can be tagged and then tracked as it passes through the system. Next, Garfinkel and his team simulated computers running common software that regularly handles passwords or confidential personal information, such as Internet Explorer, the Windows login script and Apache server software.
In a paper to be presented, they conclude that the programs took virtually no measures to limit the length of time the information is retained. Some of the tested software even copied the sensitive information, apparently without restraint.
This is the first time anyone has tried to measure the extent of this problem, says Rebecca Wright, a security expert at Stevens Institute of Technology. Garfinkel hopes the results will arouse software developers to take action.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?| A．It is secure to use your password as long as you hit the Return key. |
| B．Your personal details is likely to be in danger if you spend more time on the web. |
| C．Your password will be safe if you have some safeguards. |
| D．Never allowing your computer to store your passwords will be safe. |
| A．It will be stored in RAM. |
| B．It will be copied onto hard disk. |
| C．It might not be overwritten. |
| D．It will disappear as soon as you hit the return key. |
| A．simulating the working of a complete computer system. |
| B．tagging sensitive data. |
| C．passing through the system. |
| D．running common software. |
| A．The length of the time the information is stored is not limited. |
| B．The programs can not retain the information. |
| C．The security problem should be paid more attention to. |
| D．Some sensitive information has been copied. |
【推荐3】We seem to find out someone broke into a big company’s databases and left with millions of credit card numbers, passwords or other valuable information. Now a new kind of worry: someone could seize control of your wireless home network and steal your information from under your nose.
That’s the possibility raised by a couple of cyber security researchers from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The problem, they say, is a weakness in the very protocol meant to make wi-fi secure. That protocol is called Wi-Fi Protected Access II, WPA2. And WPA2’s weakness could allow an attacker within physical range of your wi-fi network to make a copy of that network that they could then control. The researchers call their approach a key reinstallation attack, or KRACK.
It’s important to know that a KRACK attack remains a possibility for now. The scientists realized the threat while investigating wireless security. They’ll present this research on November 1st at the Computer and Communications Security (CCS) conference in Dallas and in December at the Black Hat Europe conference in London.
In their KRACK assumption, wireless devices would be fooled into connecting to the false network. And the attacker would be able to access all of the information that devices send and receive while connected to that network — even if that information has been coded. Android and Linux would be especially easy to attack because of how their encryption keys (密钥) are set.
One measure of protection against such an attack would be to make sure they you’ve installed the most up-to-date versions of your apps, browsers and wireless router software. Updated software is most likely to include the security patches (补丁) needed to avoid falling victim to a KRACK attack, because chances are that KRACK won’t remain simply a proof-of-concept for long.
1. How can the attacker take advantage of the WPA 2’s weakness?| A．By installing a key. | B．By approaching physical range. |
| C．By copying and controlling the network. | D．By controlling the Internet users. |
| A．The false network contributes little to such attack. |
| B．If coded, the information will be free from danger. |
| C．Android is easy to attack for lack of encryption keys. |
| D．All of the information might be accessible to the attacker. |
| A．Purchase the best-quality apps. | B．Install the latest relevant software. |
| C．Ignore the patches of the computers. | D．Keep the proof of KRACK long. |
| A．Sci-Tech Front. | B．Current Affairs. |
| C．Global Celebrities. | D．Financial Window. |
