Now, in fact, they couldn&#39t do it for a lot of reasons today.现在，事实上，由于一些原因，他们不能做到这一点。One of the reasons is a lot of their telephones use IP protocol and use things like Skype and so on that go through the Internet right now,其中一个原因是他们的电话采用IP协议，并且使用像Skype之类的通过互联网通讯的工具，and so in fact we&#39re becomi

And the problem with it is, I think we are setting ourselves up for a kind of disaster like the disaster we had in the financial system,而问题在于，我认为，我们正在将我们自己置于类似于金融风暴那样的灾难之上，where we take a system that&#39s basically built on trust, was basically built for a smaller-scale system,在金融系统中我们采用了一个基于信任建立的系统

So, this book that I have in my hand is a directory of everybody who had an email address in 1982.呃，我手里的这本书是1982年所有拥有电邮地址的人的通讯录。Actually, it&#39s deceptively large.它看起来很大，其实不然。There&#39s actually only about 20 people on each page, because we have the name, address and telephone number of every singl

But the fact is, people are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet,但事实上，人们主要着眼于联网电脑的保护，and there&#39s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.反而极少关注作为通讯介质的互联网本身的保护。And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to

In fact, it was so successful that there&#39s no way that these days you could make a book like this.实际上，互联网如此成功，以至于如今你不可能出版这样一本通讯录了。My rough calculation is it would be about 25 miles thick.我粗略计算，如果这本书出版出来将会有25英尺厚。But, of course, you couldn&#39t do it, because we don&#39t know the names of all the p

And so, there are many of those things that start to happen.许多类似的事情在不断的发生。Now, there was an interesting thing that happened last April.去年四月发生了一件有趣的事情。All of a sudden, a very large percentage of the traffic on the whole Internet,突然，整个互联网上相当大量的流量，including a lot of the traffic between U.S. military in

But people won&#39t decide to do it until they recognize the need for it, and that&#39s the problem that we have right now.但是直到人民意识到真正的需要，才会决定去做，这就是现在的问题所在。So there&#39s been plenty of people, plenty of us have been quietly arguing that we should have this independent system for years,因此大量的人，大量的专家们多

So we&#39ve built this system where we understand all the parts of it,所以我们建造了这个系统，我们虽然了解这个系统的所有部分，but we&#39re using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it,但是我们以一种不同于预期的非常不同的方式在使用它，and it&#39s gotten a very, very different scale than it was designed for.而它的规模也与设计大相径庭。And in fact

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