Hackers (err, "crackers") can sell their services to others. A small group of tech savvy people can enable a lot of tech illiterate people to commit cybercrime.

Hackers (err, "crackers") can sell their services to others. A small group of tech savvy people can enable a lot of tech illiterate people to commit cybercrime. This messes up your math. We already live in a world where you don't need to own a botnet to DDoS somebody. You just rent someone else's botnet by the minute. The pirates in the story are amateurs now, but soon somebody might rise among their ranks as the go-to guy for computer stuff. Just pay him a few ringgits and you don't even need to know about Google. The only thing you need to know is who to call.