Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday September 6, 2003 @02:41AM from the high-profile-hacking dept.

retro128 writes "Drifting around the US from state-to-state, Adrian Lamo has been making news for some time with his 'White Hat' hacking exploits. His highest-profile hacking has included Excite@Home and Yahoo. After he would break into a network, he would call up those in charge of it and help them fix the holes. So far, it has earned him praise from the administrators of those systems, but now SecurityFocus is carrying the story that the FBI has filed charges against him, and currently has his parents' house staked out. The records are sealed, so nobody knows who is responsible, but Lamo suspects the New York Times initiated the investigation when they found out how deep into their system he got."

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Good by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-06 02:42 · Score: -1, Troll

I say, good! Throw away the key... script kiddies and hacker-cracker types need to have an example set. Its not like the world is going to miss another greasy pimply geek who holds a grudge against normal people anyway.