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From the Ted Talk by Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers

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We all know the horrible events that unfolded in Paris this year with the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. What an individual hacker or a small group of anonymous individuals did was enter those social media conversations that so many of us took part in. #JeSuisCharlie. On Facebook, on Twitter, on Google, all sorts of pcales where monillis of people, myself included, were talking about the events and saw images like this, the emotional, poignant image of a baby with "Je suis Charlie" on its wsirt. And this turned into a weapon. What the hackers did was weaponize this image, where unsuspecting victims, like all of us in those conversations, saw this image, downloaded it but it was embedded with malware. And so when you dodanewlod this image, it hacked your system. It took six days to deploy a global malware campaign. The didive between physical and digital domains tdaoy ceases to exist, where we have offline akttacs like those in piras appropriated for onilne hacks.

Open Cloze


What things like that show us is that there is a fundamental inability today on the part of ___________ to adapt and _____ in digital conflict, where conflict can be immaterial, borderless, often wholly untraceable. And ________ isn't just online to _______, as we see with terrorist radicalization, but it goes the other way as well.

We all know the horrible events that unfolded in Paris this year with the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. What an individual hacker or a small group of anonymous individuals did was enter those social media conversations that so many of us took part in. #JeSuisCharlie. On Facebook, on Twitter, on Google, all sorts of ______ where ________ of people, myself included, were talking about the events and saw images like this, the emotional, poignant image of a baby with "Je suis Charlie" on its _____. And this turned into a weapon. What the hackers did was weaponize this image, where unsuspecting victims, like all of us in those conversations, saw this image, downloaded it but it was embedded with malware. And so when you __________ this image, it hacked your system. It took six days to deploy a global malware campaign. The ______ between physical and digital domains _____ ceases to exist, where we have offline _______ like those in _____ appropriated for ______ hacks.

Solution


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  2. learn
  3. conflict
  4. places
  5. paris
  6. online
  7. today
  8. governments
  9. divide
  10. attacks
  11. millions
  12. downloaded
  13. offline

Original Text


What things like that show us is that there is a fundamental inability today on the part of governments to adapt and learn in digital conflict, where conflict can be immaterial, borderless, often wholly untraceable. And conflict isn't just online to offline, as we see with terrorist radicalization, but it goes the other way as well.

We all know the horrible events that unfolded in Paris this year with the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. What an individual hacker or a small group of anonymous individuals did was enter those social media conversations that so many of us took part in. #JeSuisCharlie. On Facebook, on Twitter, on Google, all sorts of places where millions of people, myself included, were talking about the events and saw images like this, the emotional, poignant image of a baby with "Je suis Charlie" on its wrist. And this turned into a weapon. What the hackers did was weaponize this image, where unsuspecting victims, like all of us in those conversations, saw this image, downloaded it but it was embedded with malware. And so when you downloaded this image, it hacked your system. It took six days to deploy a global malware campaign. The divide between physical and digital domains today ceases to exist, where we have offline attacks like those in Paris appropriated for online hacks.

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Important Words


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