Who Kevin Mitnick Is:
Kevin David Mitnick is a computer hacker and an American Computer Security Consultant. He was bought up in Los Angeles in the late 1970’s, this was the time when the personal computer industry was exploding. He was from a lower middle class family with his parents divorced at a very young age and was mainly a loner and an underachiever. He learnt and discovered the power to control over the telephone networks.
What He did:
During his time the underground culture of phone phreaks had already flourished over the years. He was able to commandeer a phone company’s digital central office switch by remotely dialling in by just using a personal computer and modem. Along with free calls that he had mastered, also used to eavesdrop on the rich and the powerful or even on his own enemies. He later joined in an informal phone phreak gang in Hollywood where they delivered pranks. One among the gang destroyed the files of a computer company set out in San Francisco. This crime was unsolved for over the year.
In the year 1981, Couple of Kevin’s Friend and Kevin physically entered the Pacific Bell’s COSMOS phone centre in downtown L.A. The group took a list of door combinations and computer passwords and series of operation manuals, they later implanted their phone numbers and pseudonyms in one of the desk rooms in a rolodex sitting. On implanting this process they used to use the fake name “John Draper” who was a computer programmer by profession and was well known for the misrouting numbers which would ring elsewhere from the desired destination. Soon they were arrested as the telephone company managers discovered the phony numbers which he reported to the local police and were caught. Kevin since being 17 a...
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...enerated on look up of the message is called as private key. The other key which can be used for any sort of message as nothing in general is called as public Key. The private key is used to encrypt the messages personally and will not be seen or shared by any other user. Whereas the public key is used again for the same reason as of encryption but is hidden from others except our self. The encryption of the data by a public key can be also decrypted by the private key.
Open PGP Encryption
Generate new PGP Key
Enter email and name of the user to generate a particular key. More emails can be added to it.
Advanced modification on the PGP can be defined using the following steps:
A specific Key type should be chose between RSA and Deffie-Hellman.
We have to sign in the key size in order to choose the sub- key which has to be sized between 1024-4096
In December 1978, a 15 year old boy named Robert Priest went missing. The boy was reported to be going to the local Pharmacy, According to the record Priest said something to his mother about how he wanted to go back home later because some contractor wants to talk to me about a job. After leaving home to meet with this man, the boy failed to return home. Upon being questioned, he owner of the pharmacy identified Gacy as the man the boy was referring to.
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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only did it happen on Martin Luther King Day, but few knew what the situation truly entailed. There was fear, skepticism, disbelief and worry surrounding the people that were involved and all of the issues that it incorporated. After these events took place the police began to crackdown on the law enforcement on hackers and other computer based law breakers. The story of the Hacker Crackdown is technological, sub cultural, criminal, and legal. There were many raids that took place and it became a symbolic debate between fighting serious computer crime and protecting the civil liberties of those involved.
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This type of encryption key administration is to create an extra key for decoding the data and is kept secure in escrow by an authorised 3rd party. We can also call this as a backup key or split-key. This kind of encryption method is been using to recover the data if a user forgot the password.
Though she is not aware of trying to create a perfect home like a doll house, her greed pushes her to act on a whim and borrow money from Mr. Krogstad to save her husband, whom she lies to that her father provided the money. She may have taken the decision out of love to save her husband’s pride, but the outcome was bound to be horrendous. She is portrayed as an independent woman, who however was inexperienced in the ways of the world, judging by how she was so quick in her judgment of trusting Kristina with her “secret”. While she may be trusting with Kristina, the same could not be said of her relationship with her husband and when she finds herself in a dilemma of facing the truth with him or leaving her marriage, she becomes withdrawn and edgy as the urge to tell the truth weighs down heavily on her. She not only borrows money, she lies and forges her father’s signature, because she knew that the loan would not be given to her without any male surety. In the end, she is torn between leaving her kids and starting an independent life and according to Daniel J. Brooks, “our social values, as in Ibsen’s time, teach us that no true mother leavers her
Sally is a common occurrence in Esperanza’s community; she lacks self-confidence and determination. In “Linoleum Roses,” Esperanza describes Sally’s post-marriage life. She says, “Sally says she likes being married because now she gets to buy her own things when her husband gives her money… Except he won’t let her talk on the telephone. And he doesn’t let her look out the window. And he doesn’t like her friends, so nobody gets to visit her unless he is working. She sits at home because she is afraid to go outside without his permission.” Sally lacks the qualities of self-confidence and determination; due to this, she lets herself fall into a trap disguised as marriage. Now, she has no control over her life. Her husband decides everything for her, and she is afraid to say no to him. Sally’s lack of two important qualities lets her give herself away to her husband. Now, her fate lies solely in his
Kasimir Malevich Kasimir Malevich, a Russian painter and designer, was born near Kiev on February 26, 1878 (Guggeheimcollection.org) and was “one of six children from Russified Poles” (Articons.co.uk). While living in Ukraine, he became absorbed into art during his teens, “largely teaching himself” the basics (Articons.co.uk). After saving his money “from his job as a railroad clerk” (Articons.co.uk), Malevich enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1903 and began to study art more seriously. Later he trained at Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts and “produced portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes” in his early stages of his career (Artstudio.com). By 1907 Malevich “took part in the Moscow Artists' Society's twice yearly exhibition along with such artists as David Burliuk, Aleksander Shevchenko and Natalia Goncharova” (Articons.co.uk).
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Hacking has been around since the birth of computers. When the term hacking was first used, its meaning was not that of how we think of it today. At the origins of computing, a hacker was considered to be just a "creative programmer (Baase, 2003)." Early forms of computer games as well as the beginnings of operating systems were discovered and created by these original hackers. These hackers plunged into systems as a way of an intellectual challenge and to aspire to gain knowledge (Baase, 2003). Kevin Mitnick believes he falls into this realm of hackers. Hackers in today's era are now looked upon as criminals who invade the privacy rights of individuals and have the ability to deliver worms/viruses. The differences are that hackers today have full intentions of delivering terrible viruses and worms. Mitnick was one of the most infamous hackers during the 1980's. He molded his hacking style around the stupidity of humans and his quest for intellectual knowledge. The ways in which he wiggled his way into computer systems extenuates many of the issues surrounding computer security and privacy.
A: A mysterious man who was never found committed 37 horrifying murders in the late 1960’s and early 70’s, and earned the title of the Zodiac Killer. He was constantly seeking the attention of the public by sending taunting letters to the police, as well as blood curdling phone calls to the station after each stabbing. Many of his letters were written as cryptograms or ciphers that were eventually encoded by the police; one of the messages translated to say “I like killing people because it is so much fun”. He struck so much fear into the people of San Francisco, and even though to much of the cities effort to catch this cold blood killer was never found. (“The Killer Called Zodiac”10)
Mathilde Loisel lived the life of a painfully distressed woman, who always believed herself worthy of living in the upper class. Although Mathilde was born into the average middle class family, she spent her time daydreaming of her destiny for more in life... especially when it came to her financial status. Guy de Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, tells a tale of a vain, narcissistic housewife who longed for the aristocratic lifestyle that she believed she was creditable for. In describing Mathilde’s self-serving, unappreciative, broken and fake human behaviors, de Maupassant incorporates the tragic irony that ultimately concludes in ruining her.
Kevin is a very intelligent man. He could use his computer skills in a good way by stopping other hackers. He didn't, so he faced the law many times. In all those times, he never spent more than a year in prison (Shimomura 1). Kevin was also a Phreak; a phone freak. He studied the phone system. He soon knew how to make free phone calls from payphones and how to crash a system. Kevin Mitnick has yet to be harshly punished for these crimes, which are very numerous (Shimomura 1).
Amanda, somehow, finds a way to be both selfish and selfless when it comes to Laura. Amanda wants Laura to be happy and successful, but does not understand that Laura is too shy and unmotivated to be either. When Amanda discovers that Laura has stopped going to typing class she is beyond disappointing. When discovered Amanda yells at her daughter saying, “Fifty dollars’ tuition, all our plans- my hopes and ambitions for you- just gone up the spout, just gone up the spout like that.” Laura quit something as simple as learning how to type; this realization struck Amanda because if she cannot do that there is no way Laura could provide for herself without a husband. Mrs. Wingfield’s worst nightmare is is for her children to become dependent on relatives and not being able to take care of themselves. After Laura drops out of typing school Amanda says, “What is there left but dependency all our lives? I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren’t prepared to occupy a position. I’ve seen such pitiful cases in the South—barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister’s husband or brother’s wife!—stuck away in some little mousetrap of a room—encouraged by one in-law to visit another—little birdlike women without any nest—eating the crust of humility all their life!. Amanda had always wanted for Laura to find a nice husband, but then the situation became desperate when the younger women
Never accept anything and you will never be disappointed. The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant is translated from French to English by John Siscoe.This story , as the title suggests, focuses on the necklace. As the necklace is given the symbolism of wealth , royalty, friendship, self respect and at last an ornament. Mathilde Loisel, young and married, has felt that she has attracted men at the ball and has relieved her wish of being rich by wearing dresses and a “diamond” necklace. This story has situational Irony. To mathilde the necklace was suppose to be one night thing ; ironically necklace takes a decade of her life.