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.

1. Multiple Reasons:
   This seems the easy answer to put at the top, since this could be a mix of various reasons. Most attacks are undoubtedly not performed under a single motive but are a combination of multiple motives that caused the attacker to move.
    
2. Political:
   While this motive is constantly shifting due to the current time and concerns of the world, I believe it is currently on of the more important motives that is currently the drive of major cyberattacks going one today.
    
3. For Money:
   Money makes the world go round. This is true now more than ever unfortunately, and that makes for a fine motive when it comes to cyber attackers. With cyberattacks becoming more mainstream and harder to find individual attackers, it is fairly easy to see the appeal of possibly making a significant income from “home”.
    
4. Boredom:
   I originally had this motive at the bottom of my list. The more I considered it though, the more I realized how much more likely it is to be the motive of a cyberattack. Boredom is not just on the attackers side but also problem the victim has to manage. As the saying goes, idle hands are the devil’s playground. This goes for both the hacker and the victim. Boredom can lead a potential victim to venture outside their comfort zone in search of entertainment. That opens the door to a cyberattack from a bored hacker looking for an easy mark.
    
5. Recognition:
   This motive seems to be used by fairly new hackers looking to make a name for themselves. Once a hacker makes a name for themselves they can move on to other motives.
    
6. Entertainment:
   I could see this being an easy excuse to explain why a hacker would perform a cyberattack. While I don’t believe this is normally the primary motive, people tend to only continue to do things they enjoy doing.
    
7. Revenge:
   While this may be a motive driven by hatred or convenience, I have a hard time placing a lot of importance in this motive. While it is a horrible situation that victims of this kind of attack go through, if the ammunition that the attacker uses against the victim is real, I tend to ask why the item used was there in the first place. If the item was never produced and put online in the first place, the situation would have never happened. After all a bow without an arrow is useless outside of its physical reach. If the attacker produces something capable of victimizing an individual from scratch, there is more than just an opportunistic motive behind the attack.