CRIM 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Script Kiddie, Cybercrime, Mail And Wire Fraud
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The hacker work ethic, where hackers are motivated less by money, and more by the playfulness of the activity and the reward of accomplishing their objectives. The money ethic, where hackers are motivated by making enough money to gain. Independence , in order to be free to pursue that hacker work ethic, without worrying so much about amassing wealth. The nethic, where hackers adopt new (internet) social norms, like the right to. Freedom of expression and the right to personal privacy (thaw, 2013) Stage 1 - identi cation (initial discovery) of new vulnerabilities by strategically- oriented entities (e. g. , foreign governments, political movements, organized crime, groups of skilled computer technologists). Stage 2 - the strategically-oriented entities fund their future exploits by marketing their discoveries or innovations ; nancially-oriented entities purchase the newly developed vulnerabilities early in the lifecycle, before they become widely known.