- Political
- For money
- Revenge
- Multiple reasons
- Entertainment
- Recognition
- Boredom
I picked political as 1 because it makes the most sense to me, because hackers can do things in the political atmosphere that could drastically change the lives of many, like altering election results. I picked for money as 2 but it can be easily swapped with politics. I feel like hacking for money is the most common reason why hackers hack. I put revenge at 3 because it seems very realistic to me. If something happened to a hacker, like they got cheated on, they could go and hack the person who cheated on them as an act of revenge. I put multiple reasons at 4 because the article mentioned something interesting. It mentions something at the end about how socioeconomic factors can lead to someone turning to hacking, which I find to be a very realistic scenario. I placed entertainment at 5 because it doesn’t seem super realistic to me, although I can kind of understand the mindset. I am very easily entertained so it makes sense to me to a degree. I placed recognition at 6 as that one didn’t make a lot of sense to me. If I was a hacker I would want to remain as anonymous and as unknown as possible. If I wanted recognition I would go play professionally in a sport or star in a movie or something, hacking wouldn’t really be my first choice for gaining recognition. Boredom is last for me because even though the article makes a strong case for boredom, it seems like boredom only targets a very specific group of people, that being people of the ages 3-13.