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The prophecy of the Mayan Calendar became such a hype when it predicted the end of the world in 2012. Thus, a Siberian company cashed in on the panic and came up with a survival kit.

Read this article from 2012 and express your thoughts about it.

Doomsday kits go on sale in Siberia as ‘end of the world’ looms…

Discuss:

1. How did you react when you heard about the Mayan Prophecy of the world ending on the 21st of December 2012?
2. Should people preoccupy themselves with predicting when the world will end?
3. If you knew the exact date the world would end, would it change the way you live? If so, in what ways? If not, why?
4. If you had to prepare your own Doomsday kit, what would be in it?

C1 – Advanced

While most big companies focus on possible ways their top secret information may be breached and how they could prevent it from happening, they are overlooking one threat to information security.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140910-loose-lips-and-corporate-secrets

Discussion Questions:

If you were in the writer’s shoes, what would you do or think at that moment?
What are your thoughts on the loose lips risk? Should companies consider loose lips a serious matter? Explain.
Share your thoughts on this statement: “Discretion is the wiser part of valour.“.
Talk about other risks your company/industry face on a regular basis.
What are ways for companies to ensure information security?
Tell a related story about information breach that you know of.