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You will watch an episode about a notorious hacker. Before you watch answer the following questions.
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· What is the difference between computer programmers and computer hackers?
· Do you think hacking can be malicious?
Watch a piece of news from the BBC World Service. Note the following information to complete the chart.
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130. Watch again and decide if the statements 1 – 8 are true or false.
1. Gary McKinnon succeeded in avoiding extradition to the USA.
2. The damage he caused costs $700 000.
3. Gary didn’t display any emotions during hearing.
4. His mother was devastated.
5. Gary McKinnon hacked into 95 computers.
6. He pleaded not guilty.
7. The British public condemns his actions.
8. Gary McKinnon’s lawyers are planning a further appeal.
Discuss the following.
· What is your attitude to hackers? Do you consider them men of genius or criminals?
· Under current circumstances should a country have special anti-hacking defence departments to protect its systems? Is Ukraine put at risk of hacking?
132. Read the text below and look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. If a line is correct, put a tick by the number on the separate answer sheet. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word on the separate answer sheet. There are two examples at the beginning (0 and 00).
Why I dislike computers
| 0 Almost everyone says that computers are wonderful and that they are | ˅ |
| 00 changing our own lives for the better by making everything faster and | own |
| 1 more reliable, but I’m not so much sure that this is the case. | |
| 2 The other day I was standing in a large department store until | |
| 3 waiting to pay for a couple of films for my camera when the assistant | |
| 4 announced that the computer which controlled the till it had stopped | |
| 5 working. I didn’t think this was a big problem and I set myself off to | |
| 6 find another counter, but of course, all the machines are one part of | |
| 7 the same system. So there we were: a shop full of customers, money | |
| 8 at the ready, waiting to make our purchases, but it was quite clear that | |
| 9 none out of the assistants knew what to do. They weren’t allowed to | |
| 10 take our money and give to customers a written receipt, because the | |
| 11 sales wouldn’t then have been recorded on the computer system. | |
| 12 In the end, like with many other people, I left my shopping on the | |
| 13 counter and walked out. Don’t you think so that’s ridiculous? It would | |
| 14 never have happened before computers, and that, for me, is all the | |
| 15 problem: we are beginning to depend on these machines for so | |
| 16 completely that we simply can’t manage without them any more. |
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