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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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You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE
"SOMEONE ELSE."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @08:48PM
He was pulling this shit as soon as he was 'out on parole.' At 2600 meetings and the like, trying to dig up dirt on people he could use as an informant. The Bradley Manning limeline just proved that all the hackers who'd nudged and sshhed and said not to talk around him were right.
This is also why the meatspace hacker meetings have been slowly dying out. Everybody could be a narc and with every person having a spy in their pocket, even if the other guy isn't intentionally spying on you the corps or the government might be.
Gone are the days where get togethers in seedy food courts or subway stations are still safe ways to congregate.