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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 20 2019, @12:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the RIP dept.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/760317486/the-mysterious-death-of-the-hacker-who-turned-in-chelsea-manning

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."


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Friday September 20 2019, @05:45PM (1 child)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Friday September 20 2019, @05:45PM (#896578) Journal

    NPR is clearly trying to rouse sympathy for that snitch and rehabilitate him in the public eye.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:09AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:09AM (#896672) Homepage

    And NPR is, of course, Jews talking about Jews all day every day.