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Morrow witnessed the exact moment when the hacker community turned on Lamo. It happened, in a stark way, at a Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York. Hacker meetups were usually a great opportunity to party, meet new people and start new projects, but from the outset it was clear that post-Manning, this HOPE meeting would be different.
"The first day at the conference there were a lot of people yelling out 'snitch' and at least one occasion that I recall somebody spitting in his direction," Morrow recalls. "It was a rather divisive time back then. Something like this had never happened to the community. Up until that point, Adrian had been an inspiration, but that all turned. In their minds, or in the culture, the worst thing you could be was a snitch and I think that probably confused a lot of people. There was a bit of a mob mentality, people were just so taken aback that this happened."
[...] After the conference, there was no ambiguity about how the hacker community felt about Lamo.
"People hated him," said another of his friends, Andrew Blake. "He couldn't log on to any sort of interest platform under his actual name without instantly getting some sort of hate directed toward him. Even when Adrian would do something with the absolute best of intentions, as soon as anyone realized that it was Adrian Lamo who did it, they didn't want anything to do with it."
(Score: 5, Informative) by ledow on Friday September 20 2019, @01:59PM (1 child)
Well, it doesn't really matter... I only bothered to skim the article but basically it's not "mysterious" at all. The guy died, he was full of all kinds of prescription and non-prescription drugs, and the coroner couldn't find a *specific* cause, but that doesn't mean much.
Including one particular combination that has proven fatal elsewhere.
"That didn't surprise Debbie Scroggin. "He would overmedicate because his anxiety was so high," she said. "There were times when he would ... come up to have dinner and he'd fall asleep in his food. Literally face down in his food.""
It's click-bait, but if you read the text-only version by refusing to agree to their cookie policy, you would see that it's not only a "mystery" in so far as people don't know exactly what killed him. That he died while having all that stuff in his body isn't exactly "mysterious" though as he was a long time abuser of all kinds of "legal", over-the-counter and prescription drugs such that his doctor and friends knew about it.
It's like saying Elvis died "mysteriously". All it means is that you don't know the exact thing that killed him, it doesn't mean the coroner was somehow baffled or surprised that the guy had died.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday September 20 2019, @07:17PM
+6, but also add in that we apparently know that the benzos were prescribed and there are other hints in the story that has depressive elements, plus the Kratom factor throwing in a whole dimension of potential interactions. No conspiracy theory needed.
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