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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:55:06 -0400
From: tim finin <finin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lovesick hacker sidelines Port of Houston
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1057454,00.html
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