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Review the articles linked with each individual motive. 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. (JOURNAL 5).

  1. REVENGE: the article is ranked a 1 as it ties to the concept of the motive the most and what makes the mist sense as the motive is revenge and the article dives into revenge porn and the harm it causes and the percentage its gone up in some places for example, the UK which has gone up in 31% in cyber-crime.
  2. POLITICAL: the article dives into the political aspect of cyber specifically cyber crime and that being hacktivist. this further goes into the U.S government and its response regarding this form of crime. the political motives is ranked at 2 because of how much the article relates for the motive going into the political aspect.
  3. ENTERTAINMENT: entertainment makes sense as it dives into the many sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook all being form of entertainment for many . Although it is very relative to the article. It does not dive into why it is a real form of entertainment.
  4. MULTIPLE REASONS: This motive is ranked low because it is one of the ones where nothing specific is being mentioned. Although, ranked high as the article goes into many reasons to what drives hackers to a life of cyber-crime such as how they are financially motivated.
  5. BOREDOM: this motive relating to the article is one of the few that makes the least sense as the article shows to be about cyberbully and how online sexual grooming of children is on the rise.
  6. FOR MONEY: this motive is one of the ones that makes the lease sense simply because of the others ones making the most sense.
  7. RECOGNITION: Recognition is realizing something or identifying it. In these case the motive is one of the few that makes sense rated at 7 in the article something is identified being the crimes used by using TOR or VPNs for computer Misuse acts crimes. Although, it is not relatable to the motive as it simply does not compare to the other one.

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