Differences --- The report of the Special Rapporteur has to be put in the context of the protection of human rights while countering terrorism. It lays out the social conditions for those who decide to join terrorist or violent extremist groups rather than giving an explanation of the motives.

Motives and conditions are different. While conditions explain the reasons why people join some causes, the motives are the purposes these causes pursue.

In cyberterrorism, I believe we should focus on the motives, because the social conditions might not be relevant to understand why a group of hackers decided to conduct a cyberattack. In this case, we need to think about the motives, which are normally of political, military or financial nature.

Source author: Guillaume Michel Blin gmichel@sre.gob.mx