Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest city (pop. 10 million). The town is torn by conflict between rival factions of Mohajir Muslim migrants from India, between the terrorists and the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and between rival groups of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims. Add to that a booming heroin trade, a kidnap-for-ransom industry and a mountain of weapons left over from the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. The result: 1,200 murders in the past year, making Karachi one of the deadliest cities in the world. (In New York City, where 7.5 million live, 1,600 people were murdered last year...
Here's the plot: short of cash but endowed with a wealth of computer skills, a clever employee is able to reach inside the boss's private data base and ``kidnap'' invaluable company secrets by locking them with a sophisticated encryption program. She then sends an anonymous electronic ransom note demanding a wire transfer of $3 million to a blind account in the Cayman Islands -- or the boss's proprietary data will be lost forever...
...quickly," says senior Kathryn Jesudowich. The Michigan Student Assembly, on the other hand, issued a resolution condemning the university. Then on Thursday, half an hour before his disciplinary hearing was set to begin, fbi agents arrested Baker under a federal statute that prohibits interstate transmission of a threat to kidnap or injure...
...year-old Iinguistics major, currently in jail facing charges of interstate transmission of a threat to kidnap or injure, has singlehandedly ignited a new round of questions on the applicability of federal laws to the realm of cyberspace...
Second, as for the Crimson reporter, you have two choices. You could kidnap him, lobotomize the information out of his brain and then destroy any evidence he might have; or, you can pray to God (or whatever entity you might do that with) that he has ethics enough not to use information like that for evil. The first choice is illegal, and the second may be wishful thinking. For your sake, I hope he's a good person, even without divine intervention...