As Julian Assange would say: "disturbing"

I stumbled across this reference in a digital-gangster.com forum thread about Adrian Lamo [1] (the thread itself is well worth the read if you have the time and inclination for some more background info)

"Before Kevin Poulsen had full coddling privileges over Lamo at Wired, the tech news service themselves ran an in-depth report outlining the unstable and unskilled kid ..." -- user "7752837529"

So I decided to dig out this old Adrian Lamo wired article from 2004 [2], and some of the information was, as Julian Assange would say, "disturbing" in the extreme:

His ex-girlfriend, who requested that her name be withheld, has also accused him of stalking her. "Every time I moved, he'd send an anonymous email," she remembers. "Sometimes he'd include my unlisted phone number, which nobody else had. He made a point of showing that he knew where I was." The court issued a restraining order against Lamo, following a complaint in which his then-girlfriend described an ongoing pattern of harassment and abuse. "He carried a stun gun, which he used on me," she recalls. "He was very controlling. He wanted to know where I was constantly. After we stopped talking, he would hack into the phone company's service center and change my phone services." * -- Jennifer Kahn, "The Homeless Hacker v. The New York Times", Wired 12/04

* emphasis mine

Jesus Christ.

[1] http://www.digitalgangster.com/4um/showthread.php?t=127709&page=2 (Webcitation: http://www.webcitation.org/5qs4SfAbR )

[2] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker_pr.html