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: 2, Funny) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @05:49PM (3 children)
It most certainly is not! And it has the advantage of being equally convenient to both coasts!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @12:10AM (2 children)
Well, Kanas isn't far from the Gulf coast, but the Great Lakes are a bit more distant.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 21 2019, @01:15AM (1 child)
There is only L.A. and Miami.
The Gulf coast is just a hazardous waste site.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:09PM
California or Florida? I'll pass. I prefer to live in the United States.