Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
Shaq Got Hacked. Now He’s Pitching for a VPN
Save this storySave this storyAt a promotional event in Times Square on Wednesday for the security company NordVPN, brand ambassador Shaquille O’Neal said he is eager to raise awareness among regular people about the importance of digital security and personal privacy.
周三，在时代广场为安全公司 NordVPN 举办的宣传活动上，品牌大使沙奎尔·奥尼尔表示，他渴望提高普通民众对数字安全和个人隐私重要性的认识。
“I have a video of me beating up Charles Barkley, and I wouldn’t want the world to see that. That was a joke,” O’Neal says. “But everybody needs to have control of their own information.”
“我有一段我痛打查尔斯·巴克利的视频，我可不想让全世界看到。那是个玩笑，”奥尼尔说，“但每个人都需要掌控自己的信息。”
After being targeted by scammers who claimed that he was trying to buy a house and they were working on the transaction, O’Neal says, he realized he needed to learn more about cybersecurity and digital defense.
奥尼尔说，在被骗子盯上后——骗子声称他正在买房，而他们正在处理这笔交易——他意识到自己需要更多地了解网络安全和数字防御。
“I was hacked for the first time, not a bad hack, and I didn’t know what to do,” he told reporters. “So I had to look into it. Once that happened, I really had to start paying more attention, because I would think nothing like that could ever happen to me, but it could happen to anybody.”
“我第一次被黑客攻击时，虽然不算严重，但我当时不知道该怎么办，”他告诉记者，“所以我不得不去研究一下。一旦发生了这种事，我就真的必须开始多加注意了，因为我曾以为这种事永远不会发生在我身上，但它可能发生在任何人身上。”
O’Neal, of course, is not just anybody. Still, the four-time NBA champion and media personality says that he doesn’t have particularly sensitive data on his devices and tries to live a normal life as much as possible.
当然，奥尼尔并非普通人。尽管如此，这位四届 NBA 总冠军得主兼媒体名人表示，他的设备上并没有特别敏感的数据，并尽量过着正常的生活。
When WIRED asked, though, whether he worries that he needs to take extra precautions to protect himself and loved ones as a result of his high profile, O’Neal said, “Yes, I think about it all the time, but I don’t let it consume me, because if you let it consume you you can go crazy. But you have to be able to have great reactionary skills if something happens.”
然而，当《连线》杂志询问他是否担心因其高知名度而需要采取额外预防措施来保护自己和亲人时，奥尼尔说：“是的，我一直都在考虑这个问题，但我不会让它占据我的全部生活，因为如果你让它占据你的生活，你可能会疯掉。但如果发生什么事，你必须具备出色的应变能力。”
A prolific tech investor who was early to AI, O’Neal emphasizes that the goal of his relationship with NordVPN is to inform the public and help people protect themselves. NordVPN is, well, known for its VPN. But the company has other offerings, including antivirus, threat detection, and scam-defense products that are geared toward accessibility for consumers.
作为一名多产的科技投资者，奥尼尔很早就涉足了人工智能领域。他强调，他与 NordVPN 合作的目标是告知公众并帮助人们保护自己。NordVPN 当然以其 VPN 产品而闻名，但该公司还有其他产品，包括旨在方便消费者使用的杀毒软件、威胁检测和防诈骗产品。
Marijus Briedis, the company’s chief technology officer, says he was surprised by the findings of a recent NordVPN poll showing that 73 percent of Americans have an overconfidence in traditional antivirus and believe it can protect them against anything from identity theft to online tracking.
该公司首席技术官马里尤斯·布里迪斯表示，NordVPN 最近的一项民意调查结果让他感到惊讶：73% 的美国人对传统杀毒软件过于自信，认为它能保护他们免受从身份盗用到在线追踪等各种威胁。
“The weakest link is between the computer and the chair, and I’ve been thinking so much about how to solve that problem,” Briedis told WIRED. “So the thing we are doing right now is focusing on education. It’s a really interesting problem, how to do it in the best way. It’s still haunting me in my dreams.”
“最薄弱的环节在于电脑和椅子之间（即用户本身），我一直在思考如何解决这个问题，”布里迪斯告诉《连线》杂志，“所以我们现在所做的是专注于教育。如何以最好的方式做到这一点，是一个非常有趣的问题。它至今仍萦绕在我的梦中。”