Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:55:06 -0400 From: tim finin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: lovesick hacker sidelines Port of Houston To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hacker attack left port in chaos
Busiest US port hit after Dorset teenager allegedly launched electronic sabotage against chatroom user
Rebecca Allison, Tuesday October 7, 2003, The Guardian
A lovesick hacker brought chaos to America's busiest seaport after launching a computer attack on an internet chatroom user who had made anti-American comments, a court heard yesterday.
Aaron Caffrey, 19, is alleged to have brought computer systems to a halt at the Port of Houston, in Texas, from his bedroom in Shaftesbury, Dorset, in what police believe to be the first electronic attack to disable a critical part of a country's infrastructure.
Paul Addison, prosecuting, told a jury at Southwark crown court that the teenager's intended target was a female chatroom user called Bokkie with whom he had argued over remarks she had made about the US.
The court heard that Caffrey, who has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, had an American girlfriend called Jessica and when Bokkie started criticising the country and its people, he became upset and allegedly launched the electronic sabotage.
... http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1057454,00.html ...
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