] The "denial of service" bug meant the port's web service
] was not accessible to provide crucial data for shipping
] pilots, mooring companies and support firms responsible
] for helping ships to navigate in and out of the harbour,
] placing shipping at risk.

So, let me get this straight. Houston has computers associated with the navigation of ships in their harbor connected to the internet?

] 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.

] "The defendant's girlfriend was an American called
] Jessica. The defendant was deeply in love with her - in
] fact somewhat obsessed with her. He named his computer
] after her and he dedicated parts of the attack script to
] her rather like the way some adolescents draw graffiti
] on walls with 'I love so-and-so'. This defendant managed
] to weave into the script a sentence about his girlfriend
] Jessica."

] The "denial of service" bug meant the port's web service
] was not accessible to provide crucial data for shipping
] pilots, mooring companies and support firms responsible
] for helping ships to navigate in and out of the harbour,
] placing shipping at risk.

]So, let me get this straight. Houston has computers associated with ]the navigation of ships in their harbor connected to the internet?

Even stupider is that i think that's what the "virus" in the movie Hacker's did.

] 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.

] "The defendant's girlfriend was an American called
] Jessica. The defendant was deeply in love with her - in
] fact somewhat obsessed with her. He named his computer
] after her and he dedicated parts of the attack script to
] her rather like the way some adolescents draw graffiti
] on walls with 'I love so-and-so'. This defendant managed
] to weave into the script a sentence about his girlfriend
] Jessica."

*blush*