Exercises

I. Repeat the words after the teacher

specifically, creation, access, authorized, secure, guilty, physical

II. Read and translate the international words

controller, system, aero plane, passenger, specific, act, criminal, safe, special, confidential, nature, public, hacking, material, section, modification, disc, virus, physical, component

III. Read and translate the information using the vocabulary

IV. Translate the verbs, give the three forms

use, suggest, commit, hack, cause, crash, relate, set out, design, protect, safeguard, intend, access, authorize, keep, destroy, deserve, realize, concern, prohibit, see, find, contain, obtain, modify, aim, alter, corrupt, define, include, remove, add, erase, appear, cover, send, damage, change

V. Give Russian equivalents

commit a crime, hack into computer system, with the intent, not surprisingly, relate to, recent creations, set out, protect information, particular reasons, criminal law, authorized people, can be kept, secure place, ease of destroying or corrupting data, deserves protection, gaining unauthorized access, offence is committed, deception or theft, a defendant, obtaining property, will be guilty, alter computer data, to corrupt a program, removal of a program, erasing data, adding to the contents, to damage the working, to be guilty of criminal damage of computers

VI. Arrange the following in pairs of synonyms

1. access a. act

2. crash b. alter

3. destroy c. break

4. gain d. corrupt

5. guilty e. crime

6. information f. data

7. intent g. defendant

8. keep h. entry

9. modify i. erase

10. murder j. killing

11. offence k. not allow

12. particular l. obtain

13. prohibit m. safeguard

14. protect n. secure

15. realize o. specific

16. remove p. store

17. safe q. understand

18. statute r. wish

VII. Grammar revision. Translate the sentences into Russian

1. It is suggested that one could commit murder by computer if one hacked into an air-traffic controller’s computer system and caused aero planes to crash, with the intent to kill the passengers.

2. It is said to be very hard to safeguard information stored on a computer.

3. It is not always possible for the owner of the computer to realize that the data have been looked at.

4. It is possible to be guilty of criminal damage of computers if there has been а physical change to some components of the computer.

VIII. Answer about the article

1. In what way can one commit a murder in air-traffic?

2. What is the Computer Misuse Act 1990?

3. Why does the information need protection by the criminal law?

4. What is “hacking”?

5. When is the offence committed?

6. What is the most common example of the offence?

7. Is modifying computer material a crime?

8. How is modification defined?

9. What does a disc with a virus do?