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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In his Parent's Custody???

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

He's in his parents custody on $250K bail

Man, his codename must be "Zero Cool"

Re:Reasonable damage figures

[drinkypoo]

Nor do I. I don't know what's up with Slashdot lately; this is a tech news site, not a script kiddie site. We're not here to learn from famous crackers or to congratulate each other for taking big sites down.

Sorry; I am here to learn from famous crackers, in part. Mostly I'm here to polish my ego by spewing big rants and flames about shit, but when you're not learning, you're dead, or you might as well be. It's called stagnation, and it's bad, mmkay?

I agree that if he caused any actual damages, he should be punished. If he didn't actually damage anything, then why punish him? Or at least, why punish him to this degree? Trespassing carries a light jail sentence, bust him for trespassing if you must, but if he didn't break anything, then it's hard to see how to justify awarding any damages.