In lecture we discussed the concept of the "good team" and the "bad team." The idea of right and wrong can often get skewed in the minds of individual actors. They may believe they are fighting for the right cause, such as when hackers associated with Anonymous took down the Russian news site RT News, a media outlet largely viewed as propaganda, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These hackers utilized illegal tactics to take down a government run news agency, in a classic argument of "the ends justifies the means." Although you may agree with what this "hacktivist" team did, consider the second and third order effects. Were people unable to get weather updates? Was any portion of emergency broadcasts disrupted due to this hack? How many more attacks will Russian sponsored hackers execute in response?
In lecture we discussed the concept of the "good team" and the "bad team." The idea of right and wrong can often get skewed in the minds of individual actors. They may believe they are fighting for the right cause, such as when hackers associated with Anonymous took down the Russian news site RT News, a media outlet largely viewed as propaganda, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These hackers utilized illegal tactics to take down a government run news agency, in a classic argument of "the ends justifies the means." Although you may agree with what this "hacktivist" team did, consider the second and third order effects. Were people unable to get weather updates? Was any portion of emergency broadcasts disrupted due to this hack? How many more attacks will Russian sponsored hackers execute in response?
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