Al-Jazeera hacker awaits sentence
Source: ZDNet UK
The hacker who attacked AL-Jazeera's Web site during the Iraq war has pleaded guilty to the crime, but he is expected to get off very lightly
A Californian man pleaded guilty on Thursday to two charges stemming from an attack on the Web site of the Arab news service Al-Jazeera during the early days of the Iraq conflict.
In a plea agreement with the US Attorney's office for the Central District of California, John William Racine II, a 24-year-old Web designer, admitted to tricking VeriSign subsidiary Network Solutions into giving him ownership of the aljazeera.net domain. Racine said he then redirected visitors to that Internet address to another site, where they were greeted by a US flag and the phrase "Let freedom ring." The man turned himself in to FBI agents on 26 March, according to the plea agreement.
