difference --- @Guillaume. Your points are valid but I tend to want to disagree with you that motives are not necessarily the key reasons and secondly, while political, military and financial considerations are very compelling motives for such actions, other actors actually use ideology to trigger extremisms, others use living conditions or oppression of a people or ethnicity. You would agree that the ethnic violations in Yemen or the Palestinians or the ethnic cleansing in Serbia/Srebrenica etc.. were indeed extremism. The same applies to online terrorism/extremism; What prevents a group of actors or concerned nationalistic citizens with advanced computer knowledge to act in a similar manner for all of the above reasons and more in the interest of their people or society? Some of these "extremism" may be higher level forms of traditional extremism or innovated or ew ways of attack possibly using bots or other malware to destructive purposes- and yes trigger electronic warfare

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