Losing His Religion: Adrian Lamo Interview

digidave writes "Six months after the sit-down, TechFocus.org has published their interview with renowned hacker Adrian Lamo. Done before his arrest, TechFocus kept the interview secret so as not to influence the outcome of his trial. It remains his only interview since being arrested."

Comments

Hope they remove testicals so he can't reproduce

[Anonymous Coward]

Hope they remove his testicals so he can't reproduce. The world doesn't need his kind.

Re:(OT) Whatever you do, don't view the interview

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry.. I'm not going to use some half-assed browser that doesn't even have type-ahead find.

Re:Lamo

[Afrosheen]

I agree with you. This article was a shitload of blabla and foofoo, nothing to do with hacking at all. You could have interviewed any crystal-wearing hippie and gotten the exact same interview.

'I just try to make things work in a different way.' WTF does that have to do with breaching security on networks? Am I missing something here?

Role Model

[rkef]

And if there's anything that I can say to anybody that is considering starting out on their own, it's to do something that nobody before them has done. And as such, if I was to really try to unduly influence anybody's path, even by working with them, I'd think that I'd be being untrue to the nature of what I do."

Sound like he needs one.

Re:overrated.

[Anonymous Coward]

The point the parent was getting at is that Lamo is just a script kiddie who got caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar.

If that's all he is, it's hard to feel sympathy for him. Actually I have such an extraordinarily low opinion of script kiddies that I think it's great he got caught.

Script kiddies are dumb. They don't know or care anything about how technology works. They just "get off" on impressing people with their "sk33lz, yo".

I, on the other hand, have an insatiable thirst for tech knowledge. I love learning new things and really getting into the core of how things work. I have no desire to break into other companies'/peoples' systems. I do a lot of security auditing with my own equipment that I own. I don't need to break into someone elses system just for the bragging rights. Maybe when I was 12 I would have thought that was cool.

So these kids ... whatever ... got what he deserved in my opinion. Hopefully he'll realize he's just a stupid, punk kid with no skills that are of any real value and he'll reform. If he is truly interested in security, there are legal ways to go about helping companies. And he'll actually get a paycheck for it.

But that's not it. He's just a stupid male crack whore who gets his kicks by doing what he knows is wrong. And now he goes out to the media and tells some sob story. "boo hoo hoo - woe is me. I'm homeless. I don't know where I'm going to get the money for my next drug fix. So I run scripts on my Windows ME laptop so I can get a temporary thrill. And then I tell companies about it .. and some of them actually thought I was doing them a favor. But oh no ... now it's over. Me oh my."

Don't drop the soap.

Re:It Figures the Times would do him in

[Master of Transhuman]

I hope you do, too.

Asshole.