Frenchman who attacked Obama and Spears Twitter accounts denies ‘hacking’

A FRENCHMAN who broke into Barack Obama and Britney Spears’ Twitter feeds insisted yesterday he is no hacker but a “kind pirate” seeking to expose security weaknesses.

Frenchman who attacked Obama and Spears  Twitter accounts denies ‘hacking’

“I did not act with a destructive aim... I wanted to warn them, to show up the faults in the system,” said the 23-year-old, who was arrested on Tuesday after an operation by French police and FBI agents.

The unemployed computer technician wore a pair of slippers adorned with smiley faces as he sat in his parents’ home in central France and told of how he broke into the micro-blogging sites.

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