Hijacking

Hijacking or highjacking is the forcible robbery from, or seizure of, a vehicle in transit.

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Historically the term used to refer to robbery of trucks or other land motor vehicles (see carjacking) and aircraft skyjacking. The term arose from someone wanting a lift on a truck calling "Hi, Jack" (the exclamation plus the name), until this was used often as a trick by robbers.

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Contemporarily the term is primarily associated with high-profile aircraft hijacking for political purposes including terrorism, although other cases have included the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 which could also be considered piracy.

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In IT, the term "hijacking" is also used when spyware or a virus writes itself in a computer program in such a way that whenever that program starts to work, besides its normal duties it does other things too, which the creator of the virus or spyware meant it to.

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Carjacking: Carjacking is the crime of motor vehicle theft from a person who is present. Typically the carjacker is armed, and the driver of the car is forced out of the car at gunpoint. The word is a portmanteau of car and hijacking....

Truck: :For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation)....

Exclamation: Exclamation may refer to one of the following....