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Cyberterrorism is the use of the internet to damage computer systems in order to scare people or push a political aim — for example, trying to shut down power, hospitals, or government networks so that a group can spread fear. It is the act and the idea, not the person. The person is a . News and security people use the word; it is very strong, like terrorism itself. Though actually, a lot of hacking is crime or spying, not terrorism. The tidy headline sometimes puts cyberterrorism on any big . Teachers and lawyers usually keep it for attacks meant to a public, not just to steal money.
網路恐怖主義。做這件事的人叫「網路恐怖分子」，不要把 -ism 當成「一個人」。
組成cyber- (the internet; from cybernetic, going back to Greek kubernētikós) + terrorism (using fear and violence for a political aim). From cyber- + terrorism.
同家族的字
- terrorismthe older word for using fear as a political weapon
- cybersecuritysame cyber- prefix; the work of defending systems against such attacks
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cyberterrorismnoun
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.
- Youths from California, Michigan and Israel were also found to have discussed cyberterrorism in some chat rooms and are suspected of trying to inject a malicious computer code into the Web servers that form the communications backbone of the Internet, Mr. McLaughlin said.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。