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The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.

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  • Robert Gates: "cyberterrorism" is worst WMD out there?
  • And I definitely think the risk of cyberterrorism is overblown (for more on this, see here, as well as this essay on cyberwar).
  • The president's choice for new defense secretary believes in "cyberterrorism."
  • We are nowhere near ready to counter cyberterrorism, which is a very real threat and has been for the last decade.
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