Week 12 – Journal Entry 14

Andriy Slynchuk’s 11 Illegal Things You Never Think Of On The Web identifies some illegal things that many might never think about online. Downloading pirated content, torrenting, breaking into accounts, cyberbullying, and malware are 5 of the worst violations. Piracy and torrenting are bad because they infringe on creators’ rights to make money. Account hacking is privacy infringement, identity theft, and money laundering. Cyberbullying can be devastating for a person’s mental health, resulting in suffering and, in extreme cases, cyberbullied thoughts. Fourth, malware dissemination can leak personal information, interfere with services, and be extremely expensive and reputational harmful. They are crimes, and they offend laws and have deep moral and social implications

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