Both of my parents are computer technicians, so I've always been exposed to technology and had interest in it.  Technology has always been a large part of my life and now that the world is starting to move towards new, technological methods of doing things, cyber warfare is starting to become more important to take notice of.  My research question does not affect my values since I am researching the effects and future of cyber warfare.  I do not have any direct personal experience with cyber warfare, but my interest in technology has lead me to read a few things about it, but I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn more.  My parents, though, and sometimes myself, have helped customers with computer problems such as a virus, which is like a very small-scale attack on a computer.  A simple virus can shut down an entire computer in some cases and even make it useless.  If such a small-scale issue can cause a whole computer to shut down, it is scary to think about what it could do to larger, more important systems.   My experience working with my parents and being exposed to the latest technology since a young age has helped me become proficient with technology.

The main claim of this article is to show the danger of cyber attacks.  China hired hackers  --  while supposedly sponsored by Russia  --  to hack into United States Pentagon systems.  There have been over 600 attacks, all attributed to the Chinese hackers.  These attacks focused on "all top national security and trade officials."

The major value of this article is showing how critical cyber attacks can be.  This article explains the Chinese attacks and the effects that they had on the United States and officials involved.  The Guardian is a UK production, and the fact that the United States was attacked on such a scale is world news.

The publication The Guardian is a good, credible, reputable source.  The author, Sam Thielman, covers technology and business for the Guardian.  He has written many articles for them, and is a steady, reliable contributor.  The article does a good job on not being incredibly biased one way or the other.

       The major claim of this article is that cyber warfare is an immediate danger, and offers five supporting pieces of evidence.  The number one piece they offer is that the government is target number one to outside enemies.  The second is the threat that businesses face, both security and financially.  

       Time has the major value of informing their readers.  Time Magazine is a very respected publication.  The main interest of this article is to inform readers of the new threat of cyber attacks.  The public should be informed because if there is a new weapon available, people should know about it.

       Like The Guardian, Time is a respected publication, and the article does not present much bias as well.  The author Ian Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time.  Bremmer is also the president of the Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy and just published a new book as well.

       The main claim of this article is that cyber warfare is a real issue.  The article first mentions the full-blown hacking war between India and Pakistan.  Both sides defaced websites belonging to organizations in each country.  In 2014 North Korea was accused of an attack on South Korea's Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co Ltd . 

       The major value in this article is to expose the reader to information that they may not have seen before.  The article does a good job lying out events to the reader, allowing them to see that cyber attacks are a true threat, or just to inform the curious reader. 

       Fortune.com is a reputable website with reliable information.  The author, Peter Suciu, is a freelance technology writer with fifteen years of experience.  He has had articles in publications ranging from Newsweek to PC.  His work has also appeared on cnet.com, forbes.com, and cnn.com.  The amount of different publications he has had work on is impressive.

This research question is arguable because cyber warfare has changed warfare and attacks itself.  There are many new ways to look at war, and how war is being waged with cyber attacks.   The three sources are generally in agreement in the fact that cyber warfare is a part of the modern war, and is something to be paid attention to.  I agree with the sources, as I believe that cyber war is something that can be utilized in warfare and general attacks.  If I were to revise this research question, I would make it so there were more opposing viewpoints.
