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Hacker Adrian Lamo Dies At 37 (zdnet.com)
Adrian Lamo, a well-known hacker known for his involvement in passing information on whistleblower Chelsea Manning and hacking into systems at The New York Times, Microsoft, and Yahoo in the early-2000s, has died at 37. ZDNet reports: His father, Mario, posted a brief tribute to his son in a Facebook group on Friday. "With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian's friends and acquittances that he is dead. A bright mind and compassionate soul is gone, he was my beloved son," he wrote. The coroner for Sedgwick County, where Lamo lived, confirmed his death, but provided no further details. Circumstances surrounding Lamo's death are not immediately known. A neighbor who found his body said he had been dead for some time.
When is this country going to stop passing out opiate pills like candy and threating in to kill heroin dealers while young people die in droves?
Decent-ish Guy, exposed a traitor with severe mental issues.
No, you're wrong. This stuff all happened before Trump was president. The person you're thinking of that's exposing the traitor is named Mueller. Decent guy.
He came to the Sac 2600 meeting a few months before his parole was up, carrying a cellphone (under a tech ban as part of his parole!) and schmoozing the group. It didn't last long since another friend of his started shit with the group that remained on 2600's #916 IRC leading to them not coming back after that. I was somewhat annoyed by the whole affair, but didn't have any particular reason to dislike Adrian until after the Manning affair, when it became apparent he was an FBI narc back then too. Good thing nobody left at the time either publicly discussed or was into illegal activities (the OGs had either disbanded or moved to private get-togethers, rather than looking over their shoulders for narcs with n00bs every time someone new showed up.)
Won't miss the guy.
i think this is something most people don't get and most takes on whistleblowers end up romanticizing - whistleblowers have it very very hard. it's not something one should ever do lightly because likely the full brunt of it is going to fall on your own shoulders. whether you end up doing the world any good or not, you're not going to be the beneficiary of any good yourself.
lamo whistleblew on a whistleblower but he's part of a community that predictably would not have sided with him or THE MAN which is the government and would see him as a traitor of sorts himself.
Well, do you know how much paperwork is involved in a suspected squirrel murder? Plus those little fuckers get all their acorns in a knot if you accuse one of them of something.
I mean; we all know the guy was in the park, feeding the ducks; and then from behind, one of those bushy tailed little shake-down artists whispered in his ear
"Mr., gimme all your acorns. Now." (Despite the fact that humans almost never carry around acorns...)
When he refused to pay up, they shot him, then hid the weapon (This is also where the saying "squirreled away" comes from by the by).
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Decent-ish Guy, exposed a traitor with severe mental issues.
You forgot the "as"
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Perhaps he did the honourable thing.
Are you for real?
And now to burn some karma with Slashdot's most unpopular opinion...
The world runs on faith. We have faith that people will keep waking up, going to their jobs, and keep society running. We have faith that the people we trust will live up to that trust. We have faith that our observations of the world have been genuine.
Adrian Lamo extended that faith to the government. He had faith that the people in government offices were true to their oaths, and he had faith that eventually a proper justice would be served. He had faith that talking to the authorities would lead to a righteous outcome.
I do not know exactly what considerations Mr. Lamo had when he made his choices. I have faith that he was trying to do what was right for the world, and I have faith that were I in his position, having had his experiences and knowing what he knew, I would also understand his decisions.
Rest in peace, fellow human. From my perspective, I may or may not have agreed with you, but that different perspective is what makes us all important.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Good Riddance. We don't need people like this in the community.
First the Korean guy who promised to crack down on cryptocurrencies, now the guy who turned in Bradley Manning.
Prediction markets were predicted decades ago but they were waiting for fungible cryptocurrencies to show up. 2018, perhaps?
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This is not an editing error. It's exactly what Mario Lamo wrote. A [sic] might have been in order, though.
fellow hackers long before Manning. He was at meetings before he even finished parole, running a fishing expedition.
It's all well and good to let readers moderate but a case like this shows how quickly a post about a hacker can devolve into a political debate in which one person makes an assertion, almost completely unrelated to the story itself, or in fact COMPLETELY unrelated to it, which then will get modded up or down, (I suspect though obviously can't prove,) according to the feelings or perception of the person with mod-points, rather than ALL being modded down to -1 for being off-topic.
If only there were some kind of system in place to mark a story itself as likely to devolve, and therefore subject to moderation by more responsible parties, rather than letting flame-wars erupt within a short time after a story goes live. In fact, despite having a slashdot login and excellent Karma, I think I'll post this anony, just so as not to get dragged into the mudslinging. Anyway, just a thought.
Regarding the story itself, this seems to be developing, and apart from condolences, doens't seem to warrant a lot of commentary until more is known. In this case, the reported decedent was under 40 years old, which would indicate, I think most people would agree, a low degree of likelihood that the culprit is "natural causes," which means the remaining suspects are accident, (including internal accidents, such as CVA, MI / AMI, intracranial aneurysm, PE, etc., as well as externals, such as a slip & fall,) suicide, or some species of homicide, (i.e., murder, assassination, etc.) Obviously, without more information, it's probably not useful or helpful to anyone to start playing pin-the-diagnosis-on-the-corpse, at least until after the autopsy, inquest, investigation, or whatever comes next in the case.
Just saying.
...this obituary would make the cover of Time Magazine: Lamo's face with a bloody red X over it. Fitting for someone who'd finger his own mother for a few pieces of silver.
When most celebrities die of an "overdose", what is really meant is the doctor screwed up and prescribed two meds that are known to react badly. It's called an overdose to avoid liability.
Opioid overdose will sometimes fall into that category and sometimes it's a get-rich-quick scheme involving kickbacks and deliberate fraud knowing the patient will die anyway.
Suicide is a third possibility. America has bugger all for mental health, on the pretext that Real Men never need help. Oh, you can spend a lot, and there's lots of Manly therapy where you're given the chance to give a moron lots of money for no help.
Apparently, the solution to everyone being unhappy all the time is to move around lots of green pieces of paper. Which is odd, because on the whole it isn't the little green pieces of paper that are unhappy. See the Guide for details.
There's nothing suspicious about it, there's lots suspicious about paranoid schizophrenics blaming Clinton, the CIA, and so on. These people need help, but Reagan shut down all the hospitals instead of fixing them.
If you want something to get suspicious about, it's the homeless lunatics being armed by the Feds, under a plan currently under review.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
This piece of shit turned in a whistleblower who was exposing US military's war crimes against children in Iraq (see Collateral Murder). In the video, one can see US soldiers raining fire upon journalists, good Samaritans, and children, and laughing about it as they carry out the atrocities. The whistleblower underwent torture under the Obama administration, according to UN.
Rot In Hell Adrian Lamo you piece of shit.
Did you complain as loudly over the several years and multiple hearings over Bengazi that wasted far more money than this?
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While I agree with your opinion that decriminalizing would be better far a variety of reason, I can't condone CT. Do you have any evidence of this ? Because I certainly DO have evidence that drug dealer mix drug together to get a more potent effect (I grew up in a bad city where a few were they discussed it openly - you gotta love the 70ies) , or even a variety of dangerous and potentially fatal chemical to cut the drug and make more money. There is no evidence which I know of that the CIA mix fentanyl and heroin to get addict death and new drug policy. When you m,ix CT , falsehood, with interesting opinion, you poison the well. Just sayin'.
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There's "blind faith", where you close your eyes and jump...
and then there's "reasonable/reasoned faith" where your knowledge and experiences lead you to believe that jumping, even with your eyes closed, is the reasonable thing.
That's the thing though. What kind of idiot learns to trust the government? It proves how untrustworthy it is every day. Probably his parents did him a gross disservice and raised him to trust authority. What rubes. Never trust authority. They have you over a barrel. Suspect them at every turn.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Spoken as an entitled whining idiot that can't even stand for his opinion.
If you aren't lying and actually was given opioids without becoming dependent it still doesn't say anything about the general case.
We can say anything about the general case by reading up on the research and statistics about the problem and can see:
. Opioids are overprescribed in cases where other drugs would be better.
. Opioids are prescribed in high doses than necessary.
. Opioids are prescribed for longer duration than necessary.
. Opioids causes dependencies and different people have different chances of developing such.
. Opioids are prescribed in cases where they obviously shouldn't be (people prone of developing dependencies++).
But you and your know-it-all friends like to claim everything is easy. It isn't. Your claims doesn't correspond to research. It doesn't apply to the real world with real people.
But I agree with your first line of text. I'd like your to grow up and be responsible. But people like you never do.
Why would it be honorable? And why don't you do it if it is?
Why do you care so much?
Some of us don't like sick twisted people.
Most of us don't. Most of us limit that dislike to actually twisted sick people.
Some of us are god damned tired of seeing the people who do NOT keep society going asking for special treatment and asking
for tolerance when their lifestyle makes many in the majority want to vomit.
You should seek medical help for that, seems like a big problem for you.
You CANNOT FORCE PEOPLE TO LIKE STUFF THEY FIND SICKENING. And the sooner you quit trying to force your twisted lifestyle
on others, the better for you.
But it's fine when you do it Mr. Hypocrite?
You said you think you won't get addicted if you don't get high. Those are famous last words. You won't believe anyone when they suggest that your pain is opiate withdrawal. I mean that's silly, you never felt high.
The "traitor" exposed war crimes.....and revealed a culture of impunity in the US military in Iraq. The traitors are the people who think murders and murderers are ok.
Only boring people are ever bored.
Trump should be kissing the media's ass. They covered every fart he made, for free! The media got Trump elected.
He got ten times the coverage of any candidate, just by being a bigger ass than anyone else. If the other candidates had been granted equal time, there would of been no time for regularly scheduled programming.
As to the Bengazi hearings, the improper server was a 'meh' moment at best, and had nothing to do with the (IIRC) nine witch hunt investigations that uncovered nothing and wasted millions, but that's apparently OK, as long as it's the 'party of fiscal responsibility' doing it.
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That's not faith. That's confidence.
Faith is 'belief without evidence.' Blind faith, what 'faith' often turns into for religious folk, is 'belief despite evidence.'
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