National Security
Due to the rising threat of many cyber-attacks that have occurred over the years, the NSA was charged by then-President George W. Bush in 2007 to create a program to track terrorists within the United States in the name of National Security. (Gellmen Poitras 2013). Attacks from computer crackers are the reason why the Comprehensive Crime Control Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act were created in order to avoid acts like when $70 million were stolen from the First National Bank of Chicago during a computer heist or when crackers threaten to sell software from a military satellite system in 1998 (Trigaux 2000).