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Hijacking
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Hijacking means to take over by force.
Hijacking may refer to:
In property:
- Aircraft hijacking or 'skyjacking'
- Carjacking
- Credit card hijacking
- Hijacking means to take over by force, and was popularized as a term during the Teamsters Vs. Independent Trucking industry owner-Operators civil unrest in Canada and the United States during the mid-1960s. At the same time, a number of prominent aircraft hijacking cases became well publicized, raising the media attention and publicity received in both types of crimes. The truck hijacking term was also incorrectly applied to the more numerous occasions when a tractor and trailer rig were simply stolen, most often while a trucker was eating or showering in a truck stop.
In internet technology:
Hijacking may also refer to:
See also
- Hijacking (on Wiktionary), the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit.
- Piracy is sometimes termed 'hijacking'
Derived usages, including tradenames
- HijackThis, abbreviated HJT, a popular freeware spyware removal tool for Microsoft Windows
- Hijack, a screen capture package for PC-type computers.
- Lojack, a device to assist in the recovery of stolen cars.
- Hijack (poker), the position two seats before the button in poker.
- Hijack is a song on Paul Kantner's debut solo album, Blows Against the Empire (1970), telling the story of the hijacking of a starship
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