In this day and age, technology has a major impact on my people’s lives. This impact may be excellent or terrible. Circumstances such as hacking, doxxing and swatting have played a major role in these experiences. They tend to dictate how far technology has come and how it can be used. With this in mind, we take a look at what each component consists of and what it entails. Anyone who has access to the internet is exposed to some level of risk with these three components. Each segment has a pro and con aspect, but outlets such as the media and government tend to spotlight only one side of these instances. Whether that is good or bad, the results influence millions of users worldwide. Looking at the history of hacking and doxxing, they date…show more content… A factor most offenders look over is the emotional aspect of swatting. The trauma that a victim feels is undeniable and terrorizing. As discussed earlier, having trained tactics team point weapons with live ammunition at a victims face is not necessarily the best feeling in the world. As one victim who was swatted also described his emotional experience, we see how these so call pranks affect the victim in detail. A Gamespot article goes over an emotional victim’s story and what he felt during his swatting incident. Joshua Peters, a Twitch streamer (Twitch is a site where users live broadcast themselves or their PC while playing a game or simply speaking on camera) was a victim of swatting while he was live streaming. Peters was broadcasting to an estimated 60,000 viewers when his mother came into his room to explain to him that officers had entered his house. After Peters returns, he tells his viewers that his family had been raided by police due to a fake distress call. Peters goes on to say that his ten year old brother who answered the front door was faced with the armed police team. On camera, Peters broke down in tears stating "I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you," Peters then went on stressing "They could have been shot, they could have died because you chose to SWAT my stream,". Knowing the anonymous culprit was still…show more content… Starting at the fundamentals, according to techopedia, hacktivism is the act of hacking a website or computer network in an effort to convey a social or political message. The person who carries out the act of hacktivism is known as a hacktivist. With roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to the free speech, human rights, or freedom of information ("What is Hacktivism? - Definition from
