Ted Bridis:

Many top experts believe the programming for the Internet worm was based on software code published on the Web months ago by a respected British computer researcher, David Litchfield, and later modified by a virus author known within the Chinese hacker community as "Lion."

"Honker" is some linguistically-impaired Chinese person's version of hongke, which is a play on the Chinese word for hacker; in the original, it suggests something like "red hacker". But what a mistransliteration! This hurts the feelings of all of us big-noses (some Chinese use "big-nose"--da bizi--as a rude reference to whites). Let's demand they change this!