Out of the seven motives given I believe the one that makes the most sense or that is the biggest motivator for people is “multiple reasons”, followed by money, political views, revenge, entertainment, recognition, and lastly boredom.  

The reason I believe “multiple reasons” is first is because not many people do something, especially a criminal act based on one thing and one thing only. When someone is willing to commit a crime and risks going to jail for a portion or all their life, it is normally because of multiple things making them feel like they need to do it. for example, the biggest single factor money. Money has a huge grasp over people and can make them do a lot of things but for a competent person they would never risk their life for it. Unless they have another reason like if they could use the money to help a close family member from a traumatic event or even death, or even to impress people or gain a status to then do something with that status. There is normally always more than one reason to commit a crime. 

Next, I put money second just because I believe that is the biggest factor to drive someone to commit cybercrime, but when you factor in multiple reasons it beats just solely money because you can use money and another factor, that’s why money gets spot two. However, when you are just talking about money this is one of the most common and believable factors. 

Next, I put political reasons third. The reason I put it in second place is because I believe that politics, especially now, are a huge part of everyone’s life and can sometime effects people deeply if they do not see the right outcome. This can then drive people to commit cybercrimes in the name of helping one agenda, so they can see what they want, happen. 

Continuing, I put revenge fourth. While I do not personally believe that revenge plays a huge role in my people who commit cybercrime, I do believe that it plays more of a role than the next three. Revenge is an unfortunate emotion and passable action that many people must deal with. This means it plays a real possibility in why some people will commit cybercrime. While most people will not get to the point where they are so vengeful that they want to commit a crime some will, and this can lead to people committing these crimes just in the name of revenge.  

Next, I feel like cybercrime can sometimes be an unfortunate byproduct of entertainment. While most people continue to develop their skills in cybersecurity or computer science, they tend to want to push the limits on what they can do. Getting closer to the border on what is legal, and illegal tends to happen. A byproduct of this is accidental or thought to be harmless crossing the line into cybercrime. I do not feel like this is always the case nor do I believe this happens a lot, so I placed this in the fifth spot. 

Next, I placed recognition in the sixth spot because, most people who look for recognition are looking for people to say something good about their name not that they hacked someone or invaded someone’s privacy online. 

Lastly, boredom. I believe that boredom is less likely to motivate someone to commit cybercrime. Boredom does not inherently spur malus actions, for you to commit a crime out of boredom there must be something else wrong with you to cause that, which I think would just fall into the “multiple reasons” category