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posted by takyon on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:33AM   Printer-friendly

Hacker who gave up Wikileaks source dies

Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker best known for passing on information that led to the arrest of Chelsea Manning, has died aged 37. In online messaging conversations, Manning confided in him, describing confidential military material Manning had sent to Wikileaks.

[...] The cause of Lamo's death, confirmed to the BBC by the Sedgwick County coroner in Kansas, has not yet been made public.

[...] Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday described Lamo as a "petty conman and betrayer of basic human decency".

Adrian Lamo.

Related: Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:17AM (#654015)

    Nil mortifi sine lucre more likely