05-02-2020 , 01:59 PM
Quote: Wearing a striped shirt and Matrix-style dark glasses, Onel de Guzman stared at the floor as he made his way through a crowd of photographers into a hastily arranged press conference in Quezon City, a suburb of the Philippines capital Manila.
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Seated to his right, de Guzman's lawyer Rolando Quimbo[b] [/b]had to lean in close to hear the 23-year-old's mumbled response, which he then repeated in English for the waiting press.
"He is not really aware that the acts imputed to him were indeed done by him," the lawyer said. "So if you ask me whether or not he was aware of the consequences I would say that he is not aware."
It was May 11, 2000, and if de Guzman was feeling shell-shocked, he had good reason to be.
He was accused of authoring and releasing the first truly global[b] [/b]computer virus that had disrupted the operations of businesses and government agencies the world over, from Ford (F) and Merrill Lynch to the Pentagon and the British Parliament, and was on track to cause a estimated $10 billion in damages — all in the name of love.
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