32 Facts About Adrian Lamo

Adrian Alfonso Lamo Atwood was an American threat analyst and hacker.

Adrian Lamo was best known for reporting US soldier Chelsea Manning to Army criminal investigators in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive US government documents to WikiLeaks.

Adrian Lamo attended high schools in Bogota and San Francisco, from which he did not graduate, but received a GED and was court-ordered to take courses at American River College, a community college in Sacramento County, California.

Adrian Lamo began his hacking efforts by hacking games on the Commodore 64 and through phone phreaking.

Adrian Lamo first became known for operating AOL watchdog site Inside-AOL.

Adrian Lamo was a grey hat hacker who viewed the rise of the World Wide Web with a mixture of excitement and alarm.

Adrian Lamo felt that others failed to see the importance of internet security in the Web's early days.

Adrian Lamo broke into corporate computer systems but never damaged them.

Adrian Lamo hoped to be hired by a corporation to attempt to break into systems and test their security, a practice that came to be known as red teaming.

In December 2001, Worldcom praised Adrian Lamo for helping to fortify its corporate security.

The New York Times filed a complaint, and a warrant for Adrian Lamo's arrest was issued in August 2003 following a 15-month investigation by federal prosecutors in New York.

Adrian Lamo surrendered to the FBI in New York City on September 11, and pleaded guilty to one felony count of computer crimes against Microsoft, LexisNexis, and The New York Times on January 8,2004.

In July 2004, Adrian Lamo was sentenced to two years' probation with six months to be served in home detention and ordered to pay $65,000 in restitution.

At his sentencing, Adrian Lamo expressed remorse for the harm his intrusions had caused.

On May 9,2006,18 months into a two-year probation sentence, Adrian Lamo refused to give the United States government a blood sample it had demanded to record his DNA in its CODIS system.

On June 15,2006, Adrian Lamo's lawyers filed a motion citing the Book of Genesis as one basis for Adrian Lamo's religious opposition to giving blood.

Some media sources indicated at the time that Adrian Lamo was among the donors on the list.

In May 2010, Adrian Lamo informed US Army authorities that Chelsea Manning had claimed to have leaked a large body of classified documents, including 260,000 classified United States diplomatic cables.

Adrian Lamo said that Manning "took credit for leaking" the video footage of the July 12,2007, Baghdad airstrike, which has since come to be known as the "Collateral Murder" video.

Adrian Lamo said he would not have turned Manning in "if lives weren't in danger".

Adrian Lamo was a volunteer "adversary characterization" analyst for Project Vigilant, a Florida-based government contractor, which encouraged him to inform the government about the alleged WikiLeaks source.

All the people who say that Adrian Lamo is a narc, he did a patriotic thing.

Adrian Lamo sees all kinds of hacks, and he was seriously worried about people dying.

Adrian Lamo was a guest on The Screen Savers five times beginning in 2002.

Adrian Lamo reconnected with Leo Laporte in 2015 as a result of a Quora article on the "dark web" for an episode of The New Screen Savers.

Adrian Lamo was known as the "Homeless Hacker" for his reportedly transient lifestyle, claiming that he spent much of his travels couch-surfing, squatting in abandoned buildings, and traveling to Internet cafes, libraries, and universities to investigate networks, sometimes exploiting security holes.

Adrian Lamo usually preferred sleeping on couches, and when he did sleep on beds, he did not sleep under covers.

Adrian Lamo often wandered through homes and offices in the middle of the night, by the light of a flashlight.

Adrian Lamo was bisexual and volunteered for the gay and lesbian media firm PlanetOut Inc in the mid-1990s.

Adrian Lamo said in a Wired article that, in May 2010, after he reported the theft of his backpack, an investigating officer noted unusual behavior and placed him under a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold, which was extended to a nine-day hold.

Adrian Lamo said he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the psychiatric ward.

Adrian Lamo died on March 14,2018, in Wichita, Kansas, at age 37.