The Dark Game Vs Code Book Essay

In "The Dark Game" by Paul Janeczko and "The Code Book" by Simon Singh they are similar by how they talk about codes and historical details about codes, but there tone, style, and writing are different. In "The Dark Game" the main character Elizabeth Van Lew, a spy that had hatred towards salavery that drove her to be a successful spies. In "The Code book" it doesn't have any characters because it most talks about the facts of coding.

The comparisons and contrasts between The Hiding Place and Night. Both books were written with struggles, tenderness, agony, and fear in mind. Of these two books only one comes out and realizes that what they have gone through was not a cruse but some what a blessing from God, Himself. The struggles both face is more than just man against man but it is also a struggle within to find who they truly are and whom they truly believe in. Both main characters, Eli and Corrie, faced something they never knew they could face but only one comes out stronger than the other.

In the early days of computing, a hacker was primarily referred to as a computer guru, someone who is extremely technical with a high expertise in computer also known as “Expert Programmers”. Nevertheless, as technology is advancing at a face pace, hacking has adopted a completely different definition. The modern definition is someone who access a computer system primarily to steal or destroy information. Hacking has caused major harm in the realm of technology. Over the years, hackers have become much more lethal in their craft. They manage to break into complex information systems from entities such as banks, government agencies, and private businesses. Furthermore, they often manipulate their victims through social engineering in order to obtain financial benefits. Hackers hold different label such as: black hat hacker and white hat hacker in which all have their own motives.

Encryption technique is the translation of data into a secret code that will prevent hackers or identity thieves from being able to break or read the data that is sent across the network.

One of the other failures that the book presents us is the user’s weak password practice and how the intruder took advantage of this is to gain super user privileges and created several user accounts by gaining root privileges. All it takes is a one-time access as super user to establish his base into the defenders zone. This book describes how the intruder took advantage of brute force method to hack user accounts and password. Also, the intruder was smart enough to steal the password information file and even managed to encrypt all the dictionary words by using the same encryption algorithm and then compared those words with the stolen encrypted passwords file to find out passwords of user accounts. The scientists/ researchers at the laboratories who are not aware of such kind of exploitations made intruder’s work easy by having easy to guess passwords, never bothered to change the passwords from time to time or in fact did not realize the importance of having strong passwords in order to maintain and protect their research data in a safe and secure way. Even today, not all the users realize the importance of having strong/secure passwords and we come across such instances where intruders exploit users ignorance. (For example, Two years ago, before I enrolled in MS-CS program, I did not know how brute force attacks work or

When a fellow general received the message, he would wrap the paper around his corresponding scytale to decipher the message (Tyson 2014). Since the advent of computers though, encryption has become increasing important and relies almost solely on cryptographic means to secure information. When speaking about encryption today, it refers more to the process rather than the mathematical formulas used to scramble data. The basic idea behind encrypting a computer message is such that it is scrambled with a sequence of random bits, known as a key, and only parties with the corresponding key can transpose it back into a comprehensible format. These keys are created via a cipher, otherwise known as an algorithm. When a user sends a message, known as the plaintext, across a network, the computer applies an algorithm to the information to encode it, resulting in a ciphertext (Encryption Basics 2014). This method can be best summarized visually:

Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into another form, called cipher text, which cannot be easily understood by anyone except authorized parties. The primary purpose of encryption is to protect the confidentiality of digital data stored on computer systems or transmitted via the Internet or other computer networks. Modern encryption algorithms play

Encryption is a process that turns information that is plainly readable into scrambled form in order to preserve the authenticity, integrity, and privacy of the information that passes through the security perimeter (Michael E. Whitman, 2009). It is the conversion of electronic data into another form, called ciphertext, which cannot be easily understood by anyone except authorized parties (Rouse, 2014).

The Zimmerman telegram was the the last event that finally pushed the U.S. into the war. The Zimmerman telegram was a letter or note sent by Arthur Zimmerman that had basically asked Mexico to declare war on the U.S., only if the U.S. declared war on Germany. The Germans strategy involved keeping the Americans busy on their own borders and not on foreign conflict. If the U.S. was prevented from joining the war, Germany would have a better chance at winning the war. The telegram noted that Mexico would get the return of their lost land. The lost land being Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. However, the telegram never reach Mexico because Britain intercepted it and showed it to American leaders. This had pushed them to a new level and they were ready for war. Once news of this spread to the American people, everyone was pushing towards joining the war.

It’s the film, High Noon versus “The Most Dangerous Game”! If you don’t know what High Noon is, it’s about Will, who is the protagonist, is coming back to town to fight Frank, who is the antagonist, and his gang to finish their fight once and for all. Now about “The Most Dangerous Game”, it’s about Rainsford, who is trapped on an island and the protagonist, fights Zaroff, who is the antagonist, to survive in this jungle-like island. The 2 stories of the film and the short story have many similarities and differences. Such resemblance are the theme and the main characters while there is a difference in the setting.

British code breakers intercepted encoded communications from Zimmermann which was intended for Mexico. The communication said “if the neutral United States entered the war on the side of the Allies, Von Eckardt was to approach Mexico’s president with an offer to forge a secret wartime alliance. The Germans would provide military and financial support for a Mexican attack on the United States, and in exchange Mexico would be free to annex “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona”(Andrews,2014). This telegram helped lure the United States into the war, and therefore altered the course of history. The telegram had such an impact on American view that they officially declared war on Germany and its

Imagine that your family is uprooted from where they have been living for your whole life, and are moved to a small space with 50 other people surrounded by death, suffering, disease and starvation. This scenario was very real in both the novel Night and the movie “Life is beautiful”. Furthermore, these two stories from the holocaust are similar and different in many ways. They are both from the same point of view which is from the son, the development of Elie and Joshua throughout the story, the characterization of the father, and God’s provisions in there lives while they were in the concentration camp. Although, there are many things that are alike in both of these stories, there are many things that are different. Which consist of the mood of sadness, the fathers different ways of showing love, and how God protected them both but in different ways. In the novel Night and in the movie “Life is beautiful”, the holocaust is portrayed

The author Avi writes very interesting books. I read the books The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and City of Light City of Dark. I noticed Avi likes to write about kids because each protagonist is a child. I also noticed he likes to make them change because in the beginning of each book, the protagonists don’t like where they are, and in the end of the book, they want to stay where they are.

Double crosses, undercover missions, code breaking, eavesdropping and human torpedoes, called pigs, what more could you want from a book. The book Ultra Hush-Hush by Stephen Shapiro is all about cracking codes, going undercover, spying on the enemy and outwitting the opponent. In the book it tells stories about how particular people cracked the codes, blew up ships, spied on the enemy, worked as double agents, stole information and much more. The stories take place during World War II, when the Axis and the Allies were at war.

   In the opening scenes of the documentary film "Hearts of Darkness-A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," Eleanor Coppola describes her husband Francis's film, "Apocalypse Now," as being "loosely based" on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Indeed, "loosely" is the word; the period, setting, and circumstances of the film are totally different from those of the novella. Yet, a close analysis of character, plot, and theme in each respective work reveals that Conrad's classic story of savagery and madness is present in its cinematic reworking.