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The Mysterious Death Of The Hacker Who Turned In Chelsea Manning

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

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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: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @06:44PM (5 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday September 20 2019, @06:44PM (#896605) Journal

    I'm gonna keep assuming that Freeman's comment was a transphobic dogwhistle.

    Yes, of course you will. Might explain why you don't see the relevance

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Friday September 20 2019, @06:48PM (4 children)

    by JNCF (4317) on Friday September 20 2019, @06:48PM (#896607) Journal

    Can you explain the relevance? I honestly googled for #MeToo stuff related to Manning before replying to Freeman, I'm open to being wrong here. I just don't think I am, and none of you have presenting a convincing alternate explanation of the comment.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday September 20 2019, @07:00PM (3 children)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday September 20 2019, @07:00PM (#896610) Journal

      Assange...

      Manning says, (look at) *Me* too!

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      • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Friday September 20 2019, @07:19PM (1 child)

        by JNCF (4317) on Friday September 20 2019, @07:19PM (#896619) Journal

        Really, every whistleblower but the first one is a "metoo"? Given that Snowden's leaks hit after Manning's, why isn't Snowden a "metoo" in this context?

        • (Score: 2, Troll) by JNCF on Friday September 20 2019, @07:24PM

          by JNCF (4317) on Friday September 20 2019, @07:24PM (#896620) Journal

          Also, Manning didn't come forward until Lamo doxxed her, so claiming that it was a cry for attention seems absurd.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:19AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 21 2019, @11:19AM (#896781) Journal
        That's pretty nonexistent for an explanation.