The Key

Being Kidnapped seems like a situation that would be terrible to be in. For one kid, it was the best few days of his life and he did not want to leave. “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry, is a fictional short story. Bill and Sam are the two main characters in the story. With much work they plan to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois. To do this they need two thousand dollars. These two men decide to kidnap Ebenezer Dorset’s child and offer a ransom. Bill and Sam take the…

Wason Selection tasks What if there are 4 cards on the table: A, K, 2 and 7. On one side of the card there is a number and on the other a letter. You have to decide which cards to turn in order to determine if the following statement is false: If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side. This is called the Wason Selection task a famous reasoning puzzle (Dawson, Gilovich, Regan, 2002). The answer to this problem is cards A and 7 instead of the most commonly…

The article “Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking RSA Encryption” written by Amy Nordrum, shows that Cryptography needs to be important, because of the fast developing of new technology. In her article Ms. Nordrum tells about computer scientists from the MIT which found a way to crack the RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman)-Code. On the fact, that RSA Encryption is used in all our devices it is quite frightening to know that the government is maybe already using this kind of technology for…

When it comes to password security, we are faced with a serious conundrum. While we want to remember the password, we still need to practice safe security with a good one. The trouble with the easier to remember passwords is that they are highly insecure. What can you do to combat this problem? When you are using uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers to compensate, you can use what is known as a passpoem to resolve the problem of remembering. As Marjan Ghazvininejad and Kevin…

Blown to Bits – 15 points each No, it shouldn’t be illegal to encrypt data. It should be legal because the Government shouldn’t have an automatic right to read anyone’s private messages/information at any time. One pro of end-to-end encryption is that data is secured when it travels from a source to its destination. It also offers high flexibility for user in selecting a data to encrypt. Another pro is that we can easily integrate with the existing solution. We can just add an…

The Goldfish- Prosopopeia I see my entire world in my line of vision. I cannot move beyond my borders of glass. A gigantic shadow approaches my bowl. The end most be coming soon for me. My world goes completely dark and I am removed from existence for a matter of moments. Food pellets rain down from the sky and I realize this shadow has just fed me. It begins to move away and I take a closer inspection of the landscape around me. I am place within a corner of a large square shaped room. The…

Hard work consists of a great deal of effort. Having a good work ethic means that you are better prepared and this will in result lead you to success. A bad work ethic will most of time lead to failure, but some people still seem to come out on top. A hard work ethic is needed in order to achieve a goal. A good work ethic will require you to put in a great deal of time and effort into something that may be painful or boring at the current time, but it will all pay off in the end. A bad work…

The Counterfeit Coins Problem is a well-known complex search problem in mathematics as well as in computer science. It can be related to the data structure (such as binary tree) computer program, algorithm, Graph Theory, Therefore researching this problem is meaningful. The Counterfeit Coins problem can be described as given a set of n look-alike Coins containing One Counterfeit which is a bit heavier or lighter than the genuine Coins. The objective is to find the Counterfeit Coins in minimum…

Steganography, or data hiding is the technique of embedding a message (pay¬load) in a medium (carrier), without causing suspicion about the existence of hidden data in the medium. The perturbations to the medium are carried out in such a manner that there is no perceivable noise component introduced. One way to illustrate the concept of steganography would be to analyze the Sim¬mons’ Prisoners’ problem. Two prisoners are allowed to communicate through a medium via an agent trusted by the warden.…

I think the meaning of “Admission” in this poem’s title is that people working in the medical filed have to write down the truth and only the truth. In a medical report, they are obligated to write down the illnesses, bruises, and conditions, not how the patients ended up with them. They might know that someone abused a patient, but they can’t do anything about it, except to treat their wounds and hope that the patient will be fine, when they know the patient wouldn’t be until something is done…