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Adrian Lamo Surrenders

Posted by timothy on from the eh-well dept.

clafarge writes "Three days after Adrian Lamo was charged with hacking, he surrendered himself to marshals at the federal courthouse in Sacramento. This according to a story on the AP's LiveWire. He's accused of causing 'more than $25K damage to New York Times Co.,' and performing LexisNexis searches on his own name to the tune of $300K! I always find it interesting that so little tinkering can cause so much 'damage' (if you didn't get that wink, read the article about the nature of the 'damage'). He's in his parents' custody on $250K bail." webmaven adds links to the same AP article carried by Wired, InfoWorld, and C|Net, and points out that more coverage can be found via Google News. He writes: "Adrian negotiated the terms of his surrender, which included the charges in the warrant issued against him being disclosed."

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  1. Useful links. by sekzscripting · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a few extra (useful) links: free lamo - adrian support site [run by kevin mitnick's girlfriend], the screen savers - shot video of adrian moments before his surrender, trigger street - running a documentary on hackers, currently they're following adrian's story..

  2. Re:Damage is damage by exhilaration · · Score: 2, Informative
    If someone hacks a site, and it goes down for a day


    He never caused a site to go down, troll. RTFA.

  3. Macki's take... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    While guest editing BoingBoing's mini-blog, Macki posted his opinion.

    "Marlowe" offers up some Timothy Leary on the message boards.

    What are we really feeding into here?

  4. Re:"damage" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    My yard? This is more akin to you being in my house. And while you shouldnt be expected to pay for new locks, you will pay for any damages you might have caused and for the time and effort that goes into searching for anything malicious you might have left behind.

  5. Re:Negotiated? by jdunn14 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe the issue is whether the charges are publicly disclosed. He would have to know that the charges are in order to defend himself, but the nature of the charges might not see the public light of day without the negotiation.

  6. Correct AP Link by jh6p · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you see the map of the US on the AP website you need to specify a newspaper.

    Try this link that says you read the headline on New Jersey Online:

    http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HACKER_ ARREST
  7. Re:Reasonable damage figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maybe not with the Times but he did with Yahoo.

  8. Re:Reasonable damage figures by ninthwave · · Score: 2, Informative

    But he didn't mess them up. He just looked.
    Only on Yahoo has it been shown that he changed Data.

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  9. Slash Mods SUCK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    While Slashdetters hyperventilate about the hacker arrests, in other news, unreported at Slashdot, Edward Teller died.

  10. Explaining the LexisNexis figure by psxndc · · Score: 4, Informative
    A lawyer friend of mine told me once that services like LexisNexis and Westlaw charge their clients something like $500 per search. Not per session. Per search. Think about that the next time you search on google, don't like what you get, and search again. Pretty easy to see how he got up to $300k that way.

    psxndc

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    1. Re:Explaining the LexisNexis figure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not only that... the "scope" of the search can have a value as well... a single "mega search" that goes into the same records that the NSA, FBI, Homeland Security, TSA use [lexisnexis is one of the companies that houses some of the data that those orgs use] costs the law enforcement only $~50 a search as part of a reciprical contract, but is sold to lawyers/general public at $7000-$12000 a SINGLE SEARCH.....

  11. Video of Lamo by acedtect · · Score: 2, Informative

    TechTV has video of Lamo before his arrest

    http://www.techtv.com/chkpt/240hp091003/http://www .techtv.com/screensavers/story/0,24330,3520394,00. html

    He did an interview in the hotel room beforehand and talks about his attitude towards the charges and what he did. Then there's some video of him with the fed at Starbuck's that doesn't have any inofrmational value but is interesting from a documentary standpoint.

    Seems like Lamo's willig to pay for his crime as long as he agrees that he's being accused of something he consciously did.

  12. Re:Where the hell did his folks get $250K???! by SithLordOfLanc · · Score: 1, Informative

    Typically, you need only need to post a bond in the amount of 10%. Thus, they wouldnot have to actually put up 250K but pay 25K and prove they can pay the rest if he flees. Also, since he turned himsef in, he would be considered a low flight risk. IANAL.