News Hacker sentenced in Al Jazeera attack

From Reuters:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-area man has been fined and sentenced to community service for hacking into the Web site of satellite TV network Al Jazeera during the U.S.-led war in Iraq and rerouting visitors to a page featuring an American flag and the motto "Let Freedom Ring."

At a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Howard Matz told Web designer John William Racine II: "I don't think of you as an evil person ... but this was a crime. It wasn't just a childish prank."

Matz sentenced Racine, 24, to 1,000 hours of community service and a $2,000 fine. Racine, also known as John Buffo, vowed to the judge that he would never do such a thing again.

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