Journal Entry #7

Cyber technology impacts interactions between offenders and victims a lot in the same way that it would normally impact them since virtual and real-world offenders do some of the same kinds of crimes. Crimes like stealing are still a widely used term in the online world as it is in the real world. Some of the differences being that the crimes online are a lot easier to get away with than in real life. Really good hackers can cover their track really good to a point where they are untraceable unlike in the real world where there are cameras and witnesses everywhere hackers do not have to be as sneaky as to when they steal, they just have to know have to cover their tracks of then ever stealing anything and sometimes these hackers are so good that businesses would find out they’d been hacked till weeks after it has happened. Criminals online also have a bigger and wider range of ways to steal than in person stealing. A way that they do may be that is by sending people emails that if they open would put malware onto their device and once this happens, they will have access to all of their data on the computer. Even things like ransom even though it’s done in the real world when it’s online it is arguably even better. Hackers can flood servers of big businesses and hold them like that until businesses decide to pay them the money it would take for the hacker to get rid of it. Even if a business were to report these hackers by the time, they did the hacker would probably have made their tracks untraceable. When it comes to the development of cyber policy as we stand today, we do not have the facilities to stop each and every attack that happens online. AS we progress and learn more about the online world, we must understand exactly the motives and ways these hackers cover their tracks because everything can be found through trial and error of figuring out how hackers hack into systems. As we become more knowledgeable of hacking then our policies should change according to how we evolve with hacking. The harder it is to hack should usually lead to more jail time than the more minor hackings that some people may experience, and it should also be based off of have many assets that person or business loses.

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