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.
- For Money: This makes the most sense to me because there is a large gain behind this motive, especially when attacking major systems that hold valuable information
- Political: This is ranked second due to the understanding that people that are highly important in politics can be targets or aggressors when it comes to cybercrimes.
- Revenge: This is ranked third due to the understanding that there are employees, for example, who would get back at a job who fired them by attacking them digitally.
- Recognition: This is ranked fourth because some people want to showcase their skills, and they feel as though this is the only way to get recognized for it.
- Multiple Reasons: This is understandable in the sense of wanting money and revenge, but it’s a lot to have multiple motives.
- Entertainment: This is ranked second to last because it is almost just as bad as hacking/attacking someone out of boredom.
- Boredom: This is ranked last because it made the least sense to me to hack/attack someone digitally out of boredom.