Terrorism costs lives and limbs, not money and bandwidth/inconvenience.
I agreed with what you were saying up to your point that I copied above.
Terrorism is used to change or influence behavior of a people. Even the
FBI reflects this in their statement explaining it:
Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property
to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment
thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.
--FBI Definition
Taking down a web site denies a company to advertise it's name is
terrorism. To deny use of a network, server, or laptop computer influences
a company (companies) their commerce, thus influencing their livelihood.
If a company can't make money, they can't survive. People get laid off, so
on and so forth.
Virus/worm writers are only going to get better, and I think it will be
happening sooner than later that companies finances will be attacked.
So, I do believe that these viruses & worms could be an application of
terrorism, no matter what the virus writer or script kiddy may think.
Sean
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