Hijacking

Air control and traffic control systems The air travel connects every part of the world. Air transport is very risky in the case of information issues. The aircrafts are controlled through systems of coordinated information systems. Any loss or misinterpretation of the information from the ground results into tragic accidents, loss of lives and resources. Such cases have been evident in many parts of the country where the crafts get lost from the system and crashes on the ground. The riskiest…

Living in a city with constant surveillance would drive anyone to paranoia. This is exactly what happens in Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale. In this novel about a handmaid named Offred, the multiple strategically placed methods of surveillance drive her to moments of senselessness and cause her to lose sight of control, individuality, and independence. Gilead has several methods of surveillance set up throughout their community. First, they have the ominous Eyes. These are people…

Criminals and Terrorist have similarities in the way they plan to commit crimes yet, there poses a distinct difference in the act of motivation. Criminals are usually motivated by greed; whereas, Terrorist are motivated by religious and political ideologies, which encompasses short and long-term goals (Clarke, R.V. & Newman, G. R., 2008). Some of the key components that are considered by Criminals and Terrorist include, the target of choice, the method and tools required to perform the act, and…

I. INTRODUCTION - Protection against unreasonable search and seizure is a cornerstone of the American Constitution. Violations of the Fourth Amendment are very controversial and may take years to resolve. In this case the Gotham City Transit Authority is attempting to initiate a policy which would allow random searches and x-ray scans of passengers and baggage entering a subway. The Olympus Civil Liberties Union is challenging the random searches, citing it would a violation of the Fourth…

not aligned with they believe (Jesús, 2009). The other 20% of the terrorist attacks is more about race, environment, prolife organization, and political, such as: FARC, Ku Klux Klan, etc… They have a large spectrum of crime such as: kidnapping, hijacking, bombing, murder, assassination, drugs and guns trade, extortion, etc.… all of these groups are so much similar in the way they operate and try to introduce fear using different methods to achieve their purpose. They instigate minorities and…

An Argument for Industrial Farming The world’s population is projected to reach nine billion people by 2050. More concerning is the fact the future global population growth is projected to be concentrated in parts of the world already experiencing difficulties feeding its current populations, including parts of Latin America, Africa and South Asia (Bowman 2007). Industrial farming and its enhanced methods are the only way will be able to feed the world’s population in the coming years. The…

Conficker, a botnet or virus, affected several Windows operating systems such as Windows 2000 Service Pack (SP) 4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold SP1, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 systems which lacked patches and had access to the internet (Krepinevich, 2012; Mills, 2009; Ackerman, 2009). Once it infiltrated an organization’s system, it mended the breach located at Port 445 to inhibit other malware from exploiting the system’s vulnerability (Krepinevich,…

A terrorist attack could be potentially as low tech as a shoe bomb or a well thought out plan such as the hijacking of aircraft that caused the 9/11 attacks in New York. The wide spectrum of hazards for a terrorist event range from Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), explosives, and a combination of hazards (WMD with an explosion of a factory or facility with harmful chemicals). Federal and State laws have ensured that hazardous chemicals and items that are transported or produced are properly…

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, increased speculation of terrorist attacks connected to maritime piracy has occurred in social media and national government discourse (Young & Valencia, 2003). Young and Valencia (2003) provide a valuable contribution to the issues concerning maritime piracy and terrorism by defining the differences and similarities between these two types of crimes. The similarities between terrorism and maritime piracy are that the underlying environmental…

Introduction Yahoo Inc. is one of the largest multinationals whose headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, California in the United States. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded the multinational in January 1994 and it got its incorporated status on the second day of March 1995. Generally, the company has been viewed to be one of the earliest pioneers of the early Internet era in the 90’s. Presently, the president of the company is the former Google executive by the name Marissa Mayer. The company…