Internet terrorism is a term often discussed in the context of Cyberspace as the use or misuse of information dissemination for terrorist purposes.
Although Terrorism is generally defined as the use of violence, for political reasons, against non-military targets, some scholars argue that terrorism is most successful when its message reaches a large public, much larger than the circle of those actually harmed by it. By inference, people or groups that use the Internet for the systematic spreading of information aimed at harassing, damaging or destroying the business of corporations or the public standing of political and religious figures, could be accused of Internet terrorism.
Terrorism and the Internet are related in two ways.
First, the Internet has become a forum for terrorist groups and individual terrorists both to spread their messages of hate and violence and to communicate with one another and with sympathizers.
Several Internet sites created by Hamas supporters, for example, carry the organization's charter and its political and military communiqués, some of which openly call for and extol the murder of Jews.
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