问答题 末日论者认定红色代码蠕虫是一种新型的战争,相当于电子战中的珍珠港事件。但两个月后两架遭劫持的飞机在北美撞毁的事件改变了一切,也粉碎了对电子战争的预言理论。美国病毒与安全专家Nick Fitzgerald说:与网络有关的一切作为下一个大威胁演变成了“柏林墙倒塌后的后冷战时期散播恐惧的替罪羊。”(whipping boy, embody)
【正确答案】Doomsayers postulated that Code Red Worm embodied a new type of conflict that represented no less than an electronic Pearl Harbour. But the hijacked airliners that crashed in North America two months later changed all that, and blew the e-warfare doomsaying theories out of the water. Virus and security expert Nick Fitzgerald said: Cyber-everything as the next big threat became "the whipping boy of post-Cold War fear mongers after the Berlin Wall fell."
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