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A U.K. teenager on trial for allegedly launching an Internet
\n attack on a U.S. port on Friday admitted he had never met a key figure
\n in the prosecution’s case–namely, his then-girlfriend–in person. <\/p>\n
The prosecution argues that Aaron Caffrey launched a distributed denial
\n of service attack (DDoS) in reaction to what he perceived as criticisms
\n of his girlfriend, Jessica. Prosecutors have produced records, or log files,
\n of Internet chats that took place at the time of the attack, and which
\n they say prove that Caffrey had a motive to carry out the attack. Caffrey
\n argues that the log files were altered or planted on his computer by hackers,
\n who carried out the DDoS attack via his PC in order to cover
\n their tracks. <\/p>\n
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