With the advent of resources and tutorials abundantly gifted by users across the world wide net, it only takes time and patience to learn just about anything, including hacking. Hacking is an increasing problem as the article pointed out, "data breaches have increased roughly fivefold since 2009". Could this be the result of curious individuals who teach themselves how to hack via the internet? In class it was debated whether withholding such information would have promising results. Arguably, it would have a minimal impact since the determined individual would find means of learning desired content in another way. The destructive reason to learn such material is due to ones self interest. The article stated that "theft of intellectual property motivate many of the attacks" and "politically motivated attacks are a growing reality". Stopping the barrage of espionage is inevitable, it is a cancer that is flooding the body of the world. Yet, as the article reemphasizes, hacking is something that can be prepared for and fought against. With that strategy in mind, hopefully within time hacking will be an improbable and frustrating pursuit that will limit the number of breaches.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/us/politics/obama-administration-plans-to-open-center-to-fight-cyberattacks.html?ref=topics&_r=0
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