Lena Kardos
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Assignment 2
In March of 2013, a 17-year-old,
Michael Cook, was arrested for hacking into students’ (the youngest being 14
years old) phones, stealing photos of them and putting them on child
pornography sites. He did this through sending a text message to his victims.
The message included a link that, when clicked on, would install malware on
their phones, which gave Cook complete access to the information stored on
their phones, including social network accounts and photos. Cook used the alias
of Maxi Focus Photography and did all of this from his home computer. He was
arrested on eight counts of cruelty to children and one count of sexually
exploiting children.
One of the reasons Cook did this
was because of dissociative anonymity. Using the alias of Maxi Focus
Photography, he must have felt that his actions and consequences would be less
attached to him, Michael Cook. He was
able to hide behind his computer during the whole process. He did not need to
talk face-to-face with any of his victims. He was anonymous. His motive for
committing this crime was not explained in the news article; however,
dissociative anonymity had a great role in why he actually went through with
the act.
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