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British man cleared of hacking US port computer
by Jeremy at 11:41 pm EDT, Oct 20, 2003

A British court cleared a teenager today of hacking into the computer of the port of Houston, Texas, after the youth testified that his computer had been taken over by someone else to mount the attack.
Caffrey had insisted that, although the infiltration was triggered from his computer, he was not behind it. He testified as an expert in his own defense, arguing that a hacker could have taken over his machine to mount the attack.

Outside the courtroom, the lanky teenager told TV reporters that he now hopes to get a job as a computer security consultant or programmer.

Just the world needs -- another inept computer security professional!

RE: British man cleared of hacking US port computer
by Decius at 12:09 am EDT, Oct 21, 2003

Jeremy wrote:
] Just the world needs -- another inept computer security
] professional!

:) I'd say its exactly what the world seems to be promoting into upper management lately. People who are really good at talking out of both sides of their mouth. I hear Verisign is working on building computer security services. Maybe he should apply there. He'd fit right in.