WARM-UP VIDEO FOR ACADEMIC IELTS WORD LIST (SUBLIST 3)

Instructions. Preparing for IELTS? Studying academic vocabulary? This quiz will help you explore collocations of words from the Academic Word List.

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Exercise. Complete each gap with suitable words and expressions you hear from the video.

There’s been a lot of talk about whether the British government will force companies like WhatsApp to introduce a backdoor into their encryption, so that the police and government can read your messages if they need to.

As I record this, they haven't done it yet, but the laws that could let them do so in the future are already in place. And here's something you might not expect me to say: that sounds like a reasonable idea.

After all, backdoors have been allowed for old-school phone conversations for decades. They're called wiretaps. And if (1) ………….. has enough evidence that they can get a legal warrant, then they can look inside your postal mail, they can listen to your phone calls, at which point a few companies decided, that, actually, they didn't want to take the risk of anyone-- not even their own employees -- being able to even theoretically (2) ………….. the messages that people were sending. The result is WhatsApp, and iMessage, and the many smaller apps like them. They have "end-to-end encryption". But companies have bowed to foreign countries loads of times in the past. BlackBerry let the Indian government (3) ………….. users' chats and web history back in 2013. The only reason WhatsApp can't read your messages is because they have deliberately chosen to design their systems that way. can someone with an agenda use this to ruin a life? An AP (4) ………….. hundreds of cases where police officers and civilian staff in the US looked up private information for personal reasons. And let's not start on what would happen if a hacker, or even some other government's intelligence service, (5) ………….. the backdoor. Or how it'd make it much more risky to report abuses of government power, on any scale. But the way to solve this is not more data, it's having enough police officers and security staff with enough time to (6) ………….. and investigate. And let's be clear: anyone who wanted (7) ………….. for evil purposes would just use something else, any of thousands of smaller services that the government hasn't noticed yet or that they couldn't possibly have jurisdiction over. Or if even that is (8) ………….., they can come up with a (9) ………….. themselves, even just in-jokes and references that no-one else understands. So when I say that an encryption backdoor sounds like a reasonable idea,

Key: Look at the key and say aloud the script from the video to improve your English.

There’s been a lot of talk about whether the British government will force companies like WhatsApp to introduce a backdoor into their encryption, so that the police and government can read your messages if they need to.

As I record this, they haven't done it yet, but the laws that could let them do so in the future are already in place. And here's something you might not expect me to say: that sounds like a reasonable idea.

After all, backdoors have been allowed for old-school phone conversations for decades. They're called wiretaps. And if (1) (a criminal investigation) has enough evidence that they can get a legal warrant, then they can look inside your postal mail, they can listen to your phone calls, at which point a few companies decided, that, actually, they didn't want to take the risk of anyone-- not even their own employees -- being able to even theoretically (2) (access) the messages that people were sending. The result is WhatsApp, and iMessage, and the many smaller apps like them. They have "end-to-end encryption". But companies have bowed to foreign countries loads of times in the past. BlackBerry let the Indian government (3) (have full access to) users' chats and web history back in 2013. The only reason WhatsApp can't read your messages is because they have deliberately chosen to design their systems that way. can someone with an agenda use this to ruin a life? An AP (4) (investigation found) hundreds of cases where police officers and civilian staff in the US looked up private information for personal reasons. And let's not start on what would happen if a hacker, or even some other government's intelligence service, (5) (got access to) the backdoor. Or how it'd make it much more risky to report abuses of government power, on any scale. But the way to solve this is not more data, it's having enough police officers and security staff with enough time to (6) (do their jobs) and investigate. And let's be clear: anyone who wanted (7) (secure communication) for evil purposes would just use something else, any of thousands of smaller services that the government hasn't noticed yet or that they couldn't possibly have jurisdiction over. Or if even that is (8) (not an option) , they can come up with a (9) (code) themselves, even just in-jokes and references that no-one else understands. So when I say that an encryption backdoor sounds like a reasonable idea

Sources: 

Channel: Tom Scott. Why The Government Shouldn't Break WhatsApp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINVwWHlzTY&t=1s

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