Transcript · english → Chinese
english → Chinese transcript
新冠疫情从根本上动摇了我们的经 济和社会，
也让我们看到在生物威胁面前我们 是多么脆弱。
在数字世界，类似的风险目前正被忽 视。
一场具有新冠病毒特征的网络攻击， 其传播速度和范围将远超任何生物 病毒。
它的繁殖率大约是我们经历的新冠 病毒的10倍。
打个比方，历史上最快的蠕虫病毒之 一，
即2003年的“冲击波蓝宝石”蠕虫病毒 ， 其规模大约每8.5秒就翻一番，
在10分钟内感染了超过75000台设备， 24小时内感染了近1100万台设备。
幸运的是，至少到目前为止， 网络攻击还没有像大流行病那样影 响我们的健康，
但其造成的經濟損失，以及對我們日 常生活的影響，
卻是同等的，有時甚至更為嚴重。
你看，要阻止類似新冠病毒的網路威 脅呈指數級傳播
唯一的方法，就是將數百萬個易受攻 擊的裝置 與彼此和網路完全斷開連結。
而這一切都必須在幾天內完成。
網路中斷一天，我們的經濟體 就將損失超過 500 億美元，
這還沒算上經濟和社會的損失，
如果這些裝置連結到運輸或醫療等 民生必需服務的話。
隨著數位領域與我們的實體世界日 益融合，
網路攻擊對我們安全造成的連鎖反 應也不斷擴大，
其速度超出了我們所做的準備。
COVID-19被认为是一个可预见的风险。
数字领域的对等风险也是如此。
让我们为应对那个风险做好更周全 的准备吧。
时不我待。
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Original transcript (english)
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our economies and societies to the core, and shown us how vulnerable we are to biological threats. In the digital world, similar risks are being overlooked right now. A cyberattack with COVID-like characteristics would spread faster and further than any biological virus. Its reproductive rate would be around 10 times greater than what we've experienced with the coronavirus.
To give you an idea, one of the fastest worms in history, the 2003 slammer sapphire worm, doubled in size approximately every 8.5 seconds, infecting over 75,000 devices in 10 minutes, and almost 11 million devices in 24 hours. Fortunately, at least until now, cyberattacks have not impacted our health the way pandemics have, but the economic damages, and therefore the impact they have had on our daily lives,
have been equal, and sometimes even greater. You see, the only way to stop the exponential propagation of a COVID-like cyberthreat is to fully disconnect the millions of vulnerable devices from one another and from the internet. All of this in a matter of days. A single day without the internet would cost our economies more than 50 billion US dollars,
and that's before considering the economic and societal damages should these devices be linked to essential services, such as transport or healthcare. As the digital realm increasingly merges with our physical world, the ripple effects of cyberattacks on our safety just keep on expanding at a faster pace than what we're preparing for.
COVID-19 was known as an anticipated risk. So is the digital equivalent. Let's be better prepared for that one. The time is now.
