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From the Ted Talk by Bruce Schneier: The security mirage

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As the nvteoly wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people thoghut the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and inedfiefrcne — and they kind of chose spiouscin. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a siurrnispg number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security cngahe, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.

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As the _______ wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people _______ the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and ____________ — and they kind of chose _________. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a __________ number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security ______, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.

Solution

  1. novelty
  2. suspicion
  3. change
  4. surprising
  5. indifference
  6. thought

Original Text

As the novelty wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people thought the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and indifference — and they kind of chose suspicion. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a surprising number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security change, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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