To be fair, you'd be surprised how many criminals seem to seek glory for their actions and then wonder how they get arrested afterwards.
Just ask all the criminals who stole things, got involved in selling drugs, etc, then boasted about it on Facebook. There have been cases of criminals boasting about their killings online, or their plans for mass attacks. I remember the shock when one of these crimes had turned out to have been planned on 4chan or another similar site.
People who break the law are often driven as much by personal fame and glory as anyone else, and both the internet companies shutting their accounts and the police and security services carefully monitoring them are good ideas for just that reason.
The 4chan example was the mass shooting at a community college in Oregon.
Personally I find a connection between how many people see computing as a black box, and the criminals who insist on posting there deeds to social media and elsewhere. To them it's a magical conduit to millions of people. I wonder if there's a deeper study into this because as a software developer I find it hard to believe that others can't at least get a sense that it's all derived from 1's and 0's.
Just ask all the criminals who stole things, got involved in selling drugs, etc, then boasted about it on Facebook. There have been cases of criminals boasting about their killings online, or their plans for mass attacks. I remember the shock when one of these crimes had turned out to have been planned on 4chan or another similar site.
People who break the law are often driven as much by personal fame and glory as anyone else, and both the internet companies shutting their accounts and the police and security services carefully monitoring them are good ideas for just that reason.