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Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego
Binary Boy writes "Bradley Manning, the US Army private arrested recently by the Pentagon for providing classified documents — including the widely seen Apache helicopter video — may have been duped by wannabe hacker Adrian Lamo, according to Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. Lamo told Manning he could provide protection under both journalist shield laws, and the clergy-lay confidentiality tradition, and instead immediately turned him in to authorities in an act of apparent shameless self-promotion."
The article also goes into Wired's role in the whole situation, the strange, sometimes sensationalist media coverage, and the odd similarity between this case and proposed scenarios in a US Intelligence report from earlier this year aimed at undermining Wikileaks.
Let us indeed remember Adrian, as the colossal dillhole he is.
"Men willingly believe what they wish." - Julius Caesar
The depends entirely on your definition of "hacker." Lamo is a "hacker" in the Hollywood sense, sure: he is able to quickly find flaws in security systems. Real hackers, though, refer to such a person as a "cracker," in the sense that they crack security; a "hacker" is someone who is a computer or electronics enthusiast.
Of course, Lamo was demonized just the same. It would not have mattered if his attack actually involved writing code, the mainstream media would have printed exactly the same stories about him.
Palm trees and 8
Yeah, what a Lamo.