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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".
Related: Report: Iraq and Afghanistan WikiLeaks Disclosures Did Not Significantly Harm U.S. National Security
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:35PM
yeah what did he do again? He didn't hit my radar of fucktwats in IT.
the facebook guy can't suffer an timely demise soon enough. same with that ex uber ceo and a number of IT exectuves that make real decisions that sell out privacy for profit while only have a concern for the little person so that they keep being a product, since they're the ones being convinced into the slaughterhouse because its good for them.
based on the reactions here for this guy, it's like he posted nude pics of users sisters and spread catty rumors about what she did last summer. certainly uncool, but the guy in charge of facebook not only defied the hacker ethos but became a callous sellout entirely that even in death won't result in the end of his empire.