[IP] lovesick hacker sidelines Port of Houston

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:55:06 -0400
> From: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
> Subject: lovesick hacker sidelines Port of Houston
> To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
>
> 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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