Suppose a hacker shuts down several websites, including Target, Colonial Pipeline, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the College of Computing and Digital Media at Northwestern University. The attack is traced to one of the following perpetrators. Do you think different penalties are appropriate depending on the perpetrator? If you impose different penalties, how would they differ?
a foreign terrorist who launched the attack to cause billions of dollars in damages to the U.S. economy
an organization publicizing its opposition to commercialization of the Web and corporate manipulation of consumers
a teenager using hacking tools found on the internet