Clever wordsmiths that we are, we often cloak our actions in words and phrases to hide their impact or to mitigate and alleviate blame. centuries of divine condemnation have made us very sensitive to the rational or irrational consequences of imagined and real culpability. blame can put you in jail, take away your rights, deny you an afterlife, or worse-cause you to change your behavior. which word in the last sentence makes the sentence satirical?

More than a hundred million e-mails are sent around the world each day, and they are all vulnerable to interception. digital technology has aided communication, but it has also given rise to the possibility of those communications being monitored. according to zimmermann, cryptographers have a duty to encourage the use of encryption and thereby protect the privacy of the individual. —the code book, simon singh what is the purpose of the statistic in this passage? it shows how big the need is for protection. it explains that email is an effective form of communication. it gives new ways to monitor email traffic. it illustrates how popular email has become.