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From the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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Open Cloze
But even more _____________, if we ________ decrypting, we'll find this __________ string, which says O600KO78RUS. That code is there underneath the encryption as some sort of a signature. It's not used for anything. And I was looking at that, trying to figure out what it _____. So obviously I Googled for it. I got zero hits; wasn't there. So I spoke with the guys at the lab. And we have a couple of Russian guys in our labs, and one of them mentioned, well, it ends in RUS like ______. And 78 is the city code for the city of St. Petersburg. For example, you can find it from some phone numbers and car license plates and stuff like that. So I went looking for contacts in St. Petersburg, and through a long road, we __________ found this one particular website.
Solution
- russia
- continue
- mysterious
- eventually
- interestingly
- means
Original Text
But even more interestingly, if we continue decrypting, we'll find this mysterious string, which says O600KO78RUS. That code is there underneath the encryption as some sort of a signature. It's not used for anything. And I was looking at that, trying to figure out what it means. So obviously I Googled for it. I got zero hits; wasn't there. So I spoke with the guys at the lab. And we have a couple of Russian guys in our labs, and one of them mentioned, well, it ends in RUS like Russia. And 78 is the city code for the city of St. Petersburg. For example, you can find it from some phone numbers and car license plates and stuff like that. So I went looking for contacts in St. Petersburg, and through a long road, we eventually found this one particular website.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
online crime |
5 |
credit card |
4 |
online criminals |
4 |
floppy disk |
2 |
pc virus |
2 |
real time |
2 |
single day |
2 |
criminal gangs |
2 |
infected computers |
2 |
bank account |
2 |
image file |
2 |
nice car |
2 |
car accident |
2 |
find online |
2 |
computers working |
2 |
Important Words
- car
- city
- code
- contacts
- continue
- couple
- decrypting
- encryption
- ends
- eventually
- figure
- find
- googled
- guys
- interestingly
- lab
- labs
- license
- long
- means
- mentioned
- mysterious
- numbers
- petersburg
- phone
- plates
- road
- rus
- russia
- russian
- signature
- sort
- spoke
- st
- string
- stuff
- website