Digital Fortress is a novel written by Dan Brown. Digital Fortress has many entertaining plot twists and mystic scenarios. The story begins with the introduction of Susan Fletcher, a cryptographist who works at the NSA, and her fiancé, David Becker, who is a language professor who likes to play racquetball. Trevor Strathmore is the head of the NSA cryptography department and has found what he believes to be an unbreakable code, developed by a former NSA employee, Ensei Tankado. The NSA has a supercomputer called the TRANSLTR that is capable of breaking any encrypted code in less than five minutes. Susan is called in by Strathmore because there is an emergency. Strathmore tells Susan that the TRANSLTR has been made obsolete. At first, she does not believe him, but Strathmore then shows Susan that the TRANSLTR has been trying to break the code for over fifteen hours. When Strathmore contacts Tankado to stop the publication, he refuses and Tankado puts a free download on his website. However, no one can open the file until Tankado gives out the password for the file, which is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. He also threatens that if anything were to happen to him, an anonymous third part called “North Dakota” will release it to everyone. Tankado is later found dead in Spain, where Becker is sent to retrieve a ring that he possessed and what they think has the passcode to unlocking Digital Fortress. In an attempt to discover Tankado's third party partner before the word gets out that Tankado is dead, Strathmore asks Susan to put a tracer on the email account for North Dakota, or, “ndakota” that has been set up on an anonymous server. Susan quickly discovers that Strathmore sent David to Spain. Strathmore believes that Tanka...
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...id and she thinks that David is dead. Strathmore fails to shut down TRANSLTR in time, and it explodes, killing him. Susan is able to escape but is scared about her fiancé. The director of the NSA brings Susan to the main databank, where the virus is attacking and everyone is trying to find the kill code. She tells everyone that the code is inscribed on the ring that David found, and the director of the NSA contacts the two agents who have David, and Susan sees her fiancé alive. They find out that the code does not work, and Susan finds a puzzle in the program to shut it down. The code is the number 3. They were able to find it out through the difference between the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, Isotope 235, and the Nagasaki nuclear bomb, isotope 238. These were the bombs that killed Tankado’s mother. The databank is saved before any hackers can get classified information.
Joel confusedly looks around and behind him he sees a scared Sarah shaking him awake, Tommy just outside of the truck, and directly in front of him, he sees a family being attacked by somebody infected, which jolts him awake and back into reality. With the car now being sideways after the crash, in order to get out, Joel uses all his strength and starts to kick the windshield in front of him until it shatters. Joel carefully crawls out then reaches in for Sarah, avoiding the shards of glass on the ground and still bordering the windshield. Just as she starts to climb out and stand up, she falls over and complains that her leg hurts. A noticeably worried Joel grabs his revolver from his jean pocket then hands it over to Tommy and demands he protect them. Joel picks Sarah up and with her in his arms, they begin running for safety. As Joel sprints through the streets with Sarah in his arms and Tommy just a few feet in front of them, chaos erupts everywhere. In any given direction, there are either citizens or infected individuals dashing through the streets, with dozens of people being attacked along the way. In addition, there are explosions and many cars accidents with one car even driving straight into a gas station, causing it to blow up. Sarah at one point looks at the gas station then alarmingly utters, “those people are on fire,” to which Joel tells her not to look, prompting her to close her eyes and
A lack of communication between parent and child can lead to insufficient development of language skills, limited emotional bonding, and behavioral concerns. In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen Reb Saunders isolates himself from his son Daniel by raising him in silence. Seldom few words pass between them unless they are debating the Talmud. Over time, their lack of verbal expression results in a decline of their vigor and energy and an unloving relationship. Reb Saunders does not make a reasonable decision by raising Danny in silence because it forms a problematic relationship between the two and presents each of them with numerous mental and physical issues.
...und out Delphine's true identity (Cormier, not Beraud). Though the pair break up, Cosima headed to Canada to meet with the other clones about what to do about Helena - the other clone who was killing them. Unfortunately, Leekie has given them all contracts in which they get exactly what they're looking for in return in return for two yearly visits. Leekie's leverage over Cosima happened to be her entire genetic code, the sequences DNA, for her to research and study. Cosima is tempted since she recently discovered that she had the same lung illness that Katja was suffering from.
Taylor, R. W., Fritsch, E. J., Liederbach, J., & Holt, T. J. (2011). Digital Crime and Digital Terrorism 2nd edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Soon after David beat up Sam, David and his brother Will go back to school from summer vacation. It’s a new school because it was just built. As David and Will go into school there is an explosion. A really big covering is put over the school and there are soldiers that come in and tell the students that they are quarantined because there is a virus in the building. There was a testing place near the school and a teenager that was infected by the virus escaped. The soldiers tell the kids and teachers that they are in danger of dying and they cannot leave the building because they will spread the virus.
The T.V. starts flashing, a red banner with the word ‘urgent’, a woman's voice starts talking. “This is a PSA for the town of Lassellsville and surrounding areas. There is said to be a strange man on a rampage running through the town, he is believed to be infected with a new virus called H1N1, please stay inside for your safety, we will keep you updated as much as possible. Police are on the lookout for Juan Carlos Jr.,” a picture of a Hispanic man with red eyes, dark brown hair, and missing teeth popped up on the t.v. “please if you see this man refrain from contact, he is dangerous, I repeat he is dangerous.” Everyone looked at each other, “oh god” John said. “Lock the doors,” Katherine said. So they locked the doors and kept the news on to keep updated. A few hours past and the fear subsided and so did any buzz they had gotten. The news comes back on and they still hadn't found the guy when all of a sudden the tv went off and so did the lights. It was totally dark. “Friggin Christ, you gotta be kidding me” Jacob uttered. “I got this. the generator is right outside”, Gabriella said and started towards the door, there came a knock. Everyone froze. Terror filled the
Modern telecommunications technologies make possible extremists to pitch their dogma globally. As Zanini and Edwards stress, modern network communications enable terrorist the freedom to operate worldwide from most any country (2001, 38). Consequently, terrorists must protect their digital information. That is a need to secure and hide within and mingle among the digital populace in order to protect their freedom of action. Two inexpensive, practical means, steganography and encryption, allow terror associations to hide and secure their digital information that protect their freedom of action.
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.
In this mentorship I continue getting new experiences in each day. Providence Mount St. Vincent, TCU is an open door for new learning opportunity. I used to work for Providence Mount St Vincent as a nursing assistant about three years ago, back then TCU wasn’t there. PMSV’s MISSION: As people of Providence, we reveal God’s love for all, especially the poor and vulnerable, through our compassionate service; CORE VALUES: Respect, compassion, justice, excellence and stewardship; VISION: Together, as people of Providence, we answer the call of every person we serve: know me; care for me; ease my way. This principle motivated and structured me to be a better caring, passionate, treat resident as individual and respect residents wishes. In this mentorship I got lucky because I am able to find a nurse that willing to mentor me in TCU. According to the nursing educator he told me that “you are the first nursing student allowed on the TCU”. That made me very proud and prepared to do my best.
Gray, (Curador) Raphael. Who are Hackers? March 2003. 30 September 2003. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/whoare. html> Hackers. Dir. Iain Softly. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1995.
A proctor is a 21 years or older, nonrelative reputable person of integrity, who monitors a student during an exam. Due to UoPeople being an online school, some or most of the courses require students to take a proctored exam at the end of the course. In order to make sure that the person who is taking the exam is actually the student and not somebody else, the student has to present an ID/driver’s license. Proctors are a somewhat like teachers, since they have to make sure that you are not cheating and/or doing something else you are not supposed to do. Proctors are different from teachers, because they do not teach or grade the student.
This hallucination of Ed Harris is the key factor in Nash’s delusional thinking. He has delusions of being a secret government aide that is helping the U.S. find bombs throughout the country that were placed here by the Russians. Nash hallucinates that Ed Harris places a device inside his arm that allows him to see a code under an ultra-violet light. This device allows Nash to gain entrance to a secret location where he is to leave the cracked codes. In reality this secret location is an abandoned, dilapidated mansion, and the key- pad that Nash types his code into no longer functions. Nash’s code breaking abilities are partly made possible by his hallucinations. The codes pop out of the paper to him and everything makes sense. Even though the codes are imaginary since there was no secret- code- breaking- project underway, Nash figures out mathematical formulas and actually modifies a theory that had been accepted in its field. He...
The text of “Burning Chrome” by William Gibson, is based on the tale of two professional hackers, Automatic Jack and Bobby Quine. Jack buys a piece of unknown software that turns out to be a sophisticated and almost untraceable Russian hacking software. Bobby decided to use this software to break in and steal money from a high level and well connected criminal known as Chrome. After Jack agrees, the two hackers successfully break in and steal money as well as take down Chrome. These two characters live in a futuristic world where human anatomy and customizable technology have become one and both software and hardware have become crucial to the people of this time. In this essay I will briefly explain how software and hardware play a crucial part within the plot and how they differentiate from one another.
T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" reveals the unvoiced inner thoughts of a disillusioned, lonely, insecure, and self-loathing middle-aged man. The thoughts are presented in a free association, or stream of consciousness style, creating images from which the reader can gain insight into Mr. Prufrock's character. Mr. Prufrock is disillusioned and disassociated with society, yet he is filled with longing for love, comfort, and companionship. He is self-conscious and fearful of his image as viewed through the world's eye, a perspective from which he develops his own feelings of insignificance and disgust. T. S. Eliot uses very specific imagery to build a portrait of Mr. Prufrock, believing that mental images provide insight where words fail.
My strong curiosity towards the field of Cybersecurity dates back to my pre-university days when I started reading sci-fi novels. Digital Fortress, a techno-thriller novel written by Dan Brown, explored the theme of government surveillance, security and civil liberties. This theme is brought out in the book by portraying cryptographic techniques, security policies and implications of these policies. This gravitated me towards the field of security. With little programming experience, I was eager to begin my nascent adventure in the field of Cybersecurity. Although I’ve gained exposure in the field of security during the course of my Bachelor’s degree, I believe pursuing a master’s degree in Cybersecurity will allow me to explore the field of security in greater depth and utilize it effectively to address more real-world challenges.