Keyboards. They can be very dangerous. Hackers can use them ____ our money, our identities and our secrets. Meet Mat Honan. Mat is a journalist who writes about new technology. He thought he was ____ on the Internet. But last year he discovered he was wrong! One day he tried to ____ his phone, when suddenly he saw an unusual ____. He ____ his phone to his computer. But the screen went ____ and asked for a PIN. He knew he didn’t have a PIN. He took out his tablet and the tablet ____ a password. But his password didn’t work! That’s when he knew it That’s when he knew it was ____. But what did they want? It was terrifying. In just 45 minutes, they stole his complete ____! Mat wrote online about what happened. The hackers did something unusual. They contacted him. They wanted to tell him how they did it. How did Matt feel about that? So how did they do it? Easily! Mat used an ____ and a credit card for that service. The hackers just had to take control of his ____. And that’s what they did! And that gave them ____ to the last four numbers of Mat’s ____. With this information, they ____ his other accounts, even his social media. The hackers knew about different mistakes in ____. With this knowledge, they stole someone’s digital life – and they were just teenagers. It was two ____ who hacked Mat Honan's accounts a few years ago. One of them said he did it to help companies to learn how to really ____ people's digital lives (today ____ is impossible). But the hackers ____ Mat's only photos of his daughter when she was young and that really hurt him. Respecting peole's ____ is a basic human value. We can't just take what we want or destroy what isn't ours. Mat's hackers forgot another basic ____ - thinking about others. We need to think about the ____ of our decisions and actions, both for ourselves and others.

Gateway to the World Unit 2

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