Adrian Lamo Surrenders

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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Useful links.

[sekzscripting]

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..

Explaining the LexisNexis figure

[psxndc]

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