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Fill in gaps 1-15 with a suitable word form. You can use not only one word in each
gap.
The Snowden Era Challenges
On January 21, 2014 a text message flashed on phones held by the protesters
1)
_______ (throng)
Kyiv’s Independence Square. The Ukraine’s ex-president was then still clinging to power and
2)
_______ (brutalize) opponents. The message – from the number 111 – read: “Dear subscriber,
you
3)
_______ (register) as a participant in a mass disturbance”. Widely presumed to
4)
_______
(send) from the president’s security apparatus to all phones in the protest zone, the message was a
stark
5)
_______ (remind) of how mobile phones can be used for surveillance. Soon after, a
Ukrainian man walked into a nondescript office in National Harbor, Maryland, and sought help
from a man named Zimmermann.
Phil Zimmermann is a
6)
_______ (cryptology). His company,
Silent Circle
, encrypts voice calls,
text messages, and any file attachments. If you use
Silent Circle
, your calls to other users are sent
through the company’s servers and
