In fairy tales, it’s usually the princess that needs protecting. At Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, the princess is the one defending the castle.
Check out: The cyber warrior ‘princess’ who guards Google
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Glossary
- enchant – fill (someone) with great delight; charm
- moniker – a name
- surveillance – close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal.
- glitch – a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or fault of equipment
- intercept – obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination
- tongue in cheek – speaking or writing in an ironic or insincere way.
- whizz – a person who is extremely clever at something
- vending machine
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Think about it
Answer the questions below.
- What does Google Security Princess do?
- How did Parisa obtain her job title?
- According to Parisa, what could put Google out of business?
- What kind of incidents are particularly scary, according to Parisa?
- Why is there no good answer to the vending machine problem?
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Practice makes perfect
Fill in the blank spaces with the missing words.
Cybercrime ________ come a long way in the past decade — from the cliched Nigerian Prince Scam to credit card theft, and suspected government surveillance ________ emails.
Tabriz’s biggest concern now is the people ________ find bugs in Google’s software, and sell the information to governments or criminals.
To combat this, the company ________ set up a Vulnerability Rewards Program, paying anywhere from $100 to $20,000 ________ reported glitches.
“What we ________ seen in the last couple of years is what we suspect to be governments trying to intercept communications,” said Tabriz. “In one case, there were Iranian-region Gmail users ________ connection was being intercepted.”
“These incidents are especially scary since they seem to be carried ________ by large, well-funded organizations or governments,” she added.
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