This isn't meant to exhibit a personal paranoia, but is it reasonable to keep the prospect of terrorism more in scope if we allow for hacking efforts that would

This isn't meant to exhibit a personal paranoia, but is it reasonable to keep the prospect of terrorism more in scope if we allow for hacking efforts that would exploit security vulnerabilities in existing systems? Gut feel (no basis, though) is that it may be more likely to take that approach than the steal-materials-and-build-and-launch one.