[ILUG] 16 year-old cracked RSA?

[Brendan Kehoe]

The Independent says

    Teen hacker is top young scientist

    Saturday January 13th 2007

    A TEENAGE hacker last night won the BT Young Scientist of the Year
    Award.

    Somalian-born Abdusalam Abubakar (pictured right), a third year
    student at CBS Synge Street, Dublin, has constructed a new way of
    beating the RSA encryption system, used to protect military and
    financial data worldwide.

    ...

I've not been able to find any real details, nor has it appeared on /. 
or the like yet.  Anyone seen it anywhere?

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