Review the articles linked with each individual motive in the presentation page or Slide #3. Rank the motives from 1 to 7 as the motives that you think make the most sense (being 1) to the least sense (being 7). Explain why you rank each motive the way you rank it.
1. Money-Money makes the most sense to be because money drives almost everything. If you are smart enough and in need, cyber crimes such as credit card fraud, could be an easy way to make money. This could supply you with food, or maybe help you get your feet on the ground and start a business.
2. Multiple Reasons- I would almost put this at number one, and imagine that it is as close to one as I can get it. The reason that I put money over it is because I don’t feel that there needs to be any other motive to money other than “I need money right now to live.” However, if we are talking about all other crimes, I believe they are all motivated by multiple things. I don’t think you can only want recognition or only want revenge. There is always more to it.
3. Political- I believe politics can be a very motivating factor for a lot of people. After Trump was elected, the country went through a lot of political division and when people have such a strong stance on one side or another it is very motivating to do everything in your power to get people on your side, or to “wake them up” and see your point of view.
4. Revenge- This article spoke about revenge porn, and while I think people that commit this crime are completely unhinged and immature, I do think revenge is a strong enough motivating factor to want to commit any sort of revenge crime.
5. Recognition- This is a very plausible motive for committing a cyber crime, but i feel like it doesn’t happen that often. The article talks about a guy launching a ddos attack on a political website so he could draw likes to his twitter page. While I do believe people that are able to do something “tricky” would like to brag about it, they normally do it anonymously and I dont believe it is ever the only motivating factor.
6. Entertainment- I believe that people that are new to hacking or committing cyber crime do it for entertainment – or to see if they can actually “pull off” the crime. However, this article speaks about a man who pulled millions of user accounts and its data off of Link’d in, bragged about it on a forum, and said he did it for fun. I refuse to believe that someone does a crime that big just for fun- and obviously that wasnt the only factor because ‘recognition’ was tied in.
7. Boredom- This article, in my opinion, made zero sense. It said that kids get bored go online and then by posting, are subjected to cyberbullying or basically sex offenders. This is kind of victim-blaming. Every other reason spoke about the reasons a cyber criminal commits an offense, and this one is regarding the victim.