Adrian Lamo Pleads Guilty

darth dickinson writes "InfoWorld reports that Adrian Lamo, the so-called 'homeless hacker,' pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he broke into the internal computer network of The New York Times. The 22-year-old could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at a sentencing hearing in April." From the sound of things, he just wants to pay his debt to society and put this behind him. It'll be interesting to see if the judge sticks to the suggested sentence or not.

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[croddy]

Lamo gained notoriety long before hacking The New York Times for his rootless life on the streets of San Francisco and for admitting to hacking the networks of high-profile companies such as Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Worldcom Inc.

no pun intended.

funny?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry I don't get it.

Re:funny?

[Anonymous Coward]

i still don't get it.

Karmic Pun?

[ispinstr]

That the hacker is represented by a man named "Hecker"? Only in America...

Re:Karmic Pun?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

That the hacker is represented by a man named "Hecker"? Only in America...

That's right, only in America. In Mexico, the guy would have been represented by Sr. Heckador. In France, M. Heckeur. In Cuba, probably by nobody.

Re:This is NOT right - Please DONATE to his fund

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm currently residing in a CA penal facility, and this Lamo kid looks like one sweet piece of ass. They say once you go geek, you never go back.

I'm bidding two cartons of smokes for him as soon as he gets here.

Not Homeless

[SirChris]

Well, at least he won't be homeless for 5 years.

Re:Not Homeless

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Well, at least he won't be homeless for 5 years.

Actually, he must be kicking himself for having pled guilty, now that he knows it usually reduces the sentence.

Why didn't he do something useful?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why didn't he do something useful, like get rid of that obnoxious registration system?

If I was the judge..

[odyrithm]

Id sentance him to a year working at MS.. that'll teach him! ;P

Re:If I was the judge..

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Id sentance him to a year working at MS.. that'll teach him! ;P

You can't. The constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishments.

Re:Lamo may have a deal with the prosecutors

[Anonymous Coward]

he has struck a deal with the Feds to server six months in Federal prison.

I bet he's going to hate running SMB. I wonder what his uptime will be?

Just what is a "homeless Hacker"?

[Nova Express]

Does he stand on the side of the road with a cardboard sign that reads:

W1LL 0WNZ UR NETW0RK 4 F00D?

Re:Something useful?

[mangu]

Would you ask that question of the punk tagging your property with spray paint? Or the kids who smash pumpkins on your front porch? Or the Visigoths driving around shooting out windows with a bb gun or busting up mailboxes with bats?

Wow, I didn't know he had tagged the New York Times building with spray paint, smashed pumpkins at their door, shot their windows with a bb gun and smashed their mailbox with a bat! Yes, in that case, I think he should go to jail. It isn't as if he had just accessed a computer through the internet...

Real Estate

[SpunkyWabbit]

Well, look at the bright side - at least he won't be homeless anymore.

Court documents

[superbeerchan]

Does anyone know if Adrian's court documents have the phrase
"LAm0, U R PWN3D!" on it?

Re:he should get the book

[deglr6328]

United Artists is probably churning out some cliche riddled piece of trash as we speak! Now, I wonder how long it will take for them to turn the Adrain character into a heterosexual with a super-hot 'hacker' girlfriend who he runs away with at the end....