Cyber technology impacts interactions between victims and offenders because it grants offenders more access to their victims. The internet allows the offender to essentially enter the victims home and make the victim feel unsafe at all times. Technology is also on our phones which most people have with them at all times granting even more access to an individual. Technology allows for direct communication between the offender and victim. The offender can spam the victim with unwanted attention and messages that may be difficult for the victim to avoid. The victim may be able to block the offender but with advancements in technology the offender could be able to get around this or just continue to create new accounts that are not blocked yet. It places a lot of responsibility on the victim to put in action safeguards to protect themselves versus making it difficult for the offender to reach the victim. If the victim isn’t tech savvy they may not know how to block or attempt to avoid the person harassing or stalking them. 

The “short-arm” of predictive knowledge is a factor in coming up with cyber policy because the laws will be continually changing. Advancement in technology can be very difficult to predict and people from fifty years ago could not have predicted where we would be now in terms of cyber technology. This just means that cyber policy must have standards and procedures that allow it to constantly evolve. There must be language written in the statutes and laws that allows for changes in technology to be addressed and tackled head on with new policies if needed. The lack of predictive knowledge should not stop policies from being made however because there are new issues that need to be addressed with legislation to protect people from online behavior and threats that could enter their lives due to the new technology. Policy makers should be vigilant about what is needed to protect citizens.