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From the Ted Talk by Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware

Unscramble the Blue Letters


I want you to travel back in time with me, to the before time, to 2017. I don't know if you can remember it, dinosaurs were roaming the earth. I was a security researcher, I had spent about five or six years doing rasecerh on the ways in which APTs, which is short for advanced prsniesett tethras, which sdtans for nation-state actors, spy on journalists and activists and lawyers and scientists and just generally people who speak truth to pewor.

And I'd been doing this for a while when I discovered that one of my fellow researchers, with whom I had been doing this all this time, was aeldllegy a serial rapist. So the first thing that I did was I read a bunch of articles about this. And in jraauny of 2018, I read an article with some of his alleged victims. And one of the things that really struck me about this article is how scared they were. They were really frightened, they had, you know, tape over the ceamras on their phones and on their laptops, and what they were worried about was that he was a hacker and he was going to hack into their stuff and he was going to ruin their lveis. And this had kept them silent for a really long time.

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I want you to travel back in time with me, to the before time, to 2017. I don't know if you can remember it, dinosaurs were roaming the earth. I was a security researcher, I had spent about five or six years doing ________ on the ways in which APTs, which is short for advanced __________ _______, which ______ for nation-state actors, spy on journalists and activists and lawyers and scientists and just generally people who speak truth to _____.

And I'd been doing this for a while when I discovered that one of my fellow researchers, with whom I had been doing this all this time, was _________ a serial rapist. So the first thing that I did was I read a bunch of articles about this. And in _______ of 2018, I read an article with some of his alleged victims. And one of the things that really struck me about this article is how scared they were. They were really frightened, they had, you know, tape over the _______ on their phones and on their laptops, and what they were worried about was that he was a hacker and he was going to hack into their stuff and he was going to ruin their _____. And this had kept them silent for a really long time.

Solution


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  7. persistent
  8. cameras
  9. research

Original Text


I want you to travel back in time with me, to the before time, to 2017. I don't know if you can remember it, dinosaurs were roaming the earth. I was a security researcher, I had spent about five or six years doing research on the ways in which APTs, which is short for advanced persistent threats, which stands for nation-state actors, spy on journalists and activists and lawyers and scientists and just generally people who speak truth to power.

And I'd been doing this for a while when I discovered that one of my fellow researchers, with whom I had been doing this all this time, was allegedly a serial rapist. So the first thing that I did was I read a bunch of articles about this. And in January of 2018, I read an article with some of his alleged victims. And one of the things that really struck me about this article is how scared they were. They were really frightened, they had, you know, tape over the cameras on their phones and on their laptops, and what they were worried about was that he was a hacker and he was going to hack into their stuff and he was going to ruin their lives. And this had kept them silent for a really long time.

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