Journal #12

Cyber technology impacts the interactions of offenders and victims because anything can be used in a positive or negative way. Offenders can find anything that may not be negative or can be found negative about a victim, and they find the ability to use it negatively. Because of this, a victim can be more at risk as cyber technology can hold a lot of personal information that could reveal detrimental information. Especially with uncertainties of the internet not knowing who wants to take your information, how they can get it, or how they may use it. As in some cases of cyber hacks an attacker will hack an online company with thousands of users with their personal information and sell it to other hackers causing victims to be more at risk than the original attacker. In addition, these users or victims sometimes do not realize their information has been leaked until it is too late, and the consequences become major. As many people do not know how to detect or know if their information has been stolen, and with many ways offenders try to get their victims’ information it can be confusing on what is or is not a potential attack. With all of this, the interactions between offenders and victims are dangerous because one wrong step on the internet and a victim’s life is changed forever and in many negative ways, and in many cases, these changes can be reversible. As life becomes hugely different for those who suffer from personal data being stolen, with this fact the victim would in many cases never see the offender increasing their fear of the cyber world as they start to fear who is after them. Making them fear the privilege that is open to the public, but abused by many again making the interaction of offender and victim from a cyber strain to a mental strain as everything runs on the internet leaving many things obsolete. 

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