Questões de Concurso Público ABIN 2018 para Oficial Técnico de Inteligência - Área 9

Based on text CB1A5AAA, judge the following items.

The expression “neat twist” (ℓ.9) refers to the irony of cyber-café patrons becoming victims of their own security consciousness.

Based on text CB1A5AAA, judge the following items.

The author of the text suggests that the old-fashioned way of sending messages on postcards can be as dangerous as sending them through cyber-café computers.

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The author is critical of people who should be, but are not, thankful for the work intelligence and security agents do.

Based on text CB1A5AAA, judge the following items.

The words “unaware” (ℓ.12) and “wary” (ℓ.16) are related in terms of meaning, being both connected to the notion of caution and attention.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

In the fragment “on becoming director of the American National Security Agency” (ℓ. 9 and 10), the preposition “on” refers to a period when the action is taking place.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

The author defends the idea that the fight against organized and sexual crimes has diverted invaluable but scarce resources from what should be America’s secret services’ main goal: the combat against terrorism.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

The idea expressed in “Counter-terrorism (…) is pre-emptive” (ℓ.31) can be also found in the following proverb: It is better to prevent than to cure.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

GCHQ experts decided to stop producing academic papers about code-breaking techniques only in the two last decades of the last century.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

In line 31, the connector “Hence” introduces a logical conclusion.

Based on text CB1A5BBB, judge the following items.

The sentence “Michael Hayden asked to send an e-mail to all staff” (ℓ. 10 and 11) can be correctly paraphrased in the following terms: Michael Hayden enquired all his employees if he could send an electronic message.