F2F Class Notes (Ben) [S]

Vocabulary

Cantonese = the dialect spoken in Guangdong

devastating

Nuclear weapons and earthquakes are devastating.

Losing a child is devastating.

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vulnerable = (vulner = weak, able = can) that can be be weak, that can have a weakness

Children, old people and sick people are vulnerable. We should take care of vulnerable people.

The company doesn’t have a lot of money. If anything bad happens, the company is very vulnerable.

This plan has many vulnerabilities: it’s too long, complicated and only relies on one person.

Grammar

• What is a hostage?
• the people –> a person

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The article is about ransomware named WannaCry, so the hacker unhleashed a virus to the computers and make the computers hostage for ransom. The virus caused devastatings damage to the personal information. If someone’s computer was affected, it will become very vulnerable to attacks. And actually the virus was create by the US government and the people in the government used vulnerability to create the ransomware.

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The article is about a ransomware application named WannaCry. so Some hackers unleashed a virus for the computers and held them as hostage for ransom.

The virus caused devastating damages to the personal information.

If someone’s computer was infected, it would become very vulnerable to attacks.

If someone’s computer was infected, their files would be encrypted and they could only recover them by paying a ransom.

And actually the virus was created by the US government and the people in the government used vulnerabilities to create the ransomware.

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hold someone hostage

He is holding me hostage.

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affect

infect