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The UAV can switch roles between a computing UAV and jamming UAV based on the channel conditions. To ensure the security of the content and the system energy efficiency in the process of offloading computing tasks, the UAV trajectory, uplink transmit power, user scheduling, and offload task are jointly optimized, and an updated-rate assisted block coordinate descent (BCD) algorithm is used. Simulation results show that this scheme efficiently improves the secrecy performance and energy efficiency of the system. 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