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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Adrian Lamo denies allegations of domestic violence

Currently featuring on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Adrian_Lamo#.28alleged.29_Domestic_Violence

Lamo also has made a statement on his blog about this at http://pax.vox.com/library/post/citability-is-important.html

Personally it strikes me as odd the Wired should be considered reliable for eight other citations in the wikipedia article on Adrian Lamo and then suddenly be considered unreliable for this one.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Lamo Manning Wikileaks timeline

A time line of interesting events in the Lamo Manning Wikileaks case. I hope to update this as events unfold. Feel free to comment with corrections/suggestions.

Last updated August 8th 2010

Thanks to SiddReader for their corrections & additions



2010-08-04 #fedz #lamo #manning #webster Webster admits contacting authorities, Lamo confirms
 Webster said he alerted Army counterintelligence agents, who contacted Lamo. Manning was detained in Kuwait May 29, three days after Lamo called Webster. Lamo said he consulted with several people after Manning confided in him, but that it was Webster who got the investigation rolling.
 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gG4K8KPIJNxykFgxOpbClNJYQo9gD9HCVD7G1



2010-08-03 #cryptome #lamo #webster Timothy Webster denies cryptome allegations
 I was certainly surprised to see that somebody went to the trouble of compiling some sort of clumsy pseudo-dossier on me, particularly given my general lack of importance with regard to... well, just about anything, really. It's apparently amateur hour, given the inaccuracies and conspiratorial tone when no conspiracy exists, but I'm flattered by the effort. I propose to the source that he/she find a more worthwhile hobby to pass the time
 http://cryptome.org/0002/lamo-webster.htm



2010-08-02 #cryptome #lamo #webster Timothy Webster outed on cryptome
 In a BBC interview with Adrian Lamo he states that he actually contacted a friend formerly with Army Counterintelligence to inform on Manning. The former agent is a man named Timothy Douglas Webster who Lamo has known for many years. The two met on America Online when they were both involved in the AOL hacking scene. Mr. Webster [personal information deleted by Cryptome] and Lamo remain very close friends.
 http://cryptome.org/0002/lamo-webster.htm

  #chetuber #lamo #manning #wired Lamo denies Chet Uber's claims he was sent documents by Manning
 Update 8/2/10 18:30 EDT: Adrian Lamo said Monday that Manning did not provide him with classified documents. Lamo says Uber’s statements were the result of a misunderstanding. Lamo informed Uber in May that Manning, in his instant messenger chats with Lamo, had discussed things he’d seen on classified networks.
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/lamo-classified-documents/



2010-08-01 #chetuber #lamo #vigilant Chet Uber says Lamo member of Project Vigilance
 In early June 2010 security pro Chet Uber got a phone call from Adrian Lamo, a well-known hacker he had worked with for a year in a volunteer-run intelligence organization. Lamo had received classified documents from a U.S. Army intelligence analyst named Bradley Manning and wanted advice about what to do. Uber told Lamo to turn Manning in.
 http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179998/Meet_the_man_who_helped_Lamo_turn_in_Manning_the_Wikileaker



2010-07-25 #warlogs #wikileaks Wikileaks releases Afgan war logs
 A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks



2010-07-21 #fedz #lamo #manning #webster Lamo says he initially talked about Manning to ex who "happened" to work for .mil counterintelligence
 Fearing such a breach would jeopardize national security, Lamo passed on what he knew to his ex, who happened to work for Army counterintelligence.
 http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/wikileaks-snitch-hacker-adrian-lamo-faces-wrath-of-his-peers/19562042



2010-07-18 #hope #lamo Lamo defends himself on HOPE informant panel
 "He’s been called a snitch, a traitor, even a war criminal. He’s receiving death threats regularly. But Sunday Adrian Lamo took the stage at HOPE 2010 to defend his decisions, and then sat down with Gizmodo."
 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-defends-manning-decision/



2010-07-16 #assange #hope Feds look for Julian Assange at HOPE
 NEW YORK CITY--Federal agents appeared at a hacker conference on Friday morning looking for Julian Assange, the controversial figure who has become the public face of Wikileaks, an organizer said.
 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010861-83.html



2010-07-10 #greenwald #lamo #pressrelease Lamo claims Greenwald reneged on distribution deal
 "Lamo hit back, telling Greenwald in an e-mail exchange: "You can man up and do what you said you'd do, or see it (Lamo's piece) run elsewhere, with the more damning addendum that you've welched on your word. What /can/ you be trusted on, Mr. Greenwald? I suggest you establish a beachhead in that area here."
 http://www.webcitation.org/5r7vgLZ78

  #appelbaum #assange #lamo #manning #pressrelease Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Praises Manning Charges, Calls for Assange & Appelbaum to Step Down
 Ex-hacker Adrian Lamo, who had exposed Manning's activities, praised the government for timely action, saying: "I am pleased that Manning is no longer being held without charges, and that the case against him is moving forward."
 http://www.webcitation.org/5r7viXi8u

  #abuse #lamo #wikipedia Lamo denies allegations of domestic abuse
 "I have never been subject to a restraining order in my life. A search of court records produces none. In light of the above, it seems consistent with WP:BLP that these edits be removed until sourced."
 http://www.webcitation.org/5r7RUOT7w
http://www.webcitation.org/5r7RXF7tO



2010-07-06 #boingboing #feds #manning Bradley Manning charged
 The U.S. military has announced that it will press criminal charges against 22 year old Pfc. Bradley E. Manning for allegedly transferring classified military information to his personal computer, "wrongfully adding unauthorized software to a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer," obtaining "more than 150,000 classified U.S. State Department cables," and transmitting data to unauthorized persons.
 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-will-press-crimin.html

  #dailytech #feds #manning #wikileaks DailyTech claims DoD no contact from Wikileaks lawyers
 DailyTech has received information from a high ranking Department of Defense source involved with the the investigation, claiming that they had received no contact from attorneys retained and hired by the site that Manning allegedly leaked to -- Wikileaks. This contradicts previous reports. Wikileaks chief Julian Assange had previously stated that his efforts were rebuffed by U.S. government officials, a claim the DoD source states is believed to be false.
 



2010-07-05 #cjlambert #greenwald #lamo Lamo posts Greenwald reply on cryptome, cjlambert blog
 "From there the facts flew out the window as the Salon.com reporter, Glenn Greenwald launched into a long-winded narrative, in essence, accusing me of not only Manning's incarceration, but for lies, conspiracy with the government, and black ops to take down Wikileaks. It was a clever attempt to turn the tables - to put my reputation on trial before the public."
 http://cryptome.org/0001/lamo-greenwald.htm
http://cjlambert.posterous.com/exclusive-former-hacker-lamo-on-iraq-leaks



2010-07-04 #appelbaum #greenwald #lamo #pressrelease Lamo to rebutt Greenwald, hacked Salon in 2003, Jacob Appelbaum wikileaks volunteer
 In his reply, Lamo outed Greenwald's primary source, Jacob Appelbaum, as being a Wikileaks collaborator, as confirmed by multiple sources. ... Lamo also detailed the assistance he rendered to Salon after gaining access to all Salon premium subscriber data in 2003. The web site had promised to cover its own intrusion in its own pages, but backed out of the deal out of fear that it could impact potential investors.
 http://www.prlog.org/10775231-ex-hacker-consummates-deal-with-saloncom-refutes-conspiracy-theories.html



2010-07-03 #greenwald #lamo Lamo sends reply to Salon article
 Submitted my reply to Salon.com two before midnight Eastern, making it this week on both coasts. Hella.
 http://www.webcitation.org/5qykNAZ12



2010-07-02 #hope HOPE conference supports "Stop Snitching" T-Shirts
 "http://stopsnitchingnerds.blogspot.com/ - get yours in time for HOPE!"
 http://www.webcitation.org/5qwVAQIWt
http://www.stopsnitchingnerds.blogspot.com/

  #conspiracy #cryptome #lamo Lamo denies conspiracy theories
 I've certainly never worked for LEO's or the IC. I was, in fact, offered the chance - before my arrest, and after - and declined. The "after" part included a chance to inform. I didn't, even though it would have mitigated my sentence.
 http://cryptome.org/0001/lamo-denies.htm



2010-07-01 #assange #hope #lamo #pressrelease #wikileaks Lamo challenges Assange to debate on US soil at HOPE con
 "Lamo further challenged Assange to a sidebar debate in order to clear the air of questionable accusations made by the Wikileaks Twitter account. Assange has refused to confirm or deny whether the account is official, and the controversy was featured in a recent New York Times piece"
 http://www.prlog.org/10770890-ex-hacker-adrian-lamo-challenges-wikileaks-assange-to-debate-honor-conference-committments.html



2010-06-29 #chatlogs #dailytech #lamo #source #wikileaks DailyTech publishes retraction of Lamo chatlogs source claim
 "In that post we wrote we did not yet know whether Wikileaks outed Adrian Lamo as a source (in violation of its own policies). We now have evidence to believe that it did not."
 http://www.dailytech.com/Adrian+Lamo+Outed+Self+As+Source+in+Bradley+Manning+Case/article18880.htm



2010-06-27 #chatlogs #lamo #source #wikileaks Discovery that Lamo previously disclosed himself as chatlog source on risky.biz
 
 http://adrianlamologs.blogspot.com/2010/06/adrian-lamo-outs-self-as-wikileaks.html

  #lamo #manning #pressrelease Lamo says he is "resolved to testify" in Manning case
 "Adrian Lamo will be available to testify in the Bradley Manning case despite a recent uptick in death threats and questionable leaks, the ex-hacker announced today."
 http://www.prlog.org/10762142-despite-death-threats-adrian-lamo-maintains-resolve-to-testify-in-wikileaks-bradley-manning-case.html



2010-06-26 #dailytech #nadim Nadim responds to DailyTech article
 "My response to the recent DailyTech article (http://bit.ly/aZBfNa) about Adrian Lamo, Wikileaks and myself: http://db.nadim.cc/dtresp.txt 4:18 AM Jun 26th via web" -- twitter
 http://www.webcitation.org/5qwRwG72D
http://www.webcitation.org/5qwS0nGSO

  #andystangby #greenwald #lamo #pressrelease Lamo to rebutt Greenwald, "award winning journalist" Andy Stangby to fact check
 "Award-winning journalist Andy Stangby was tapped to fact-check Greenwald's work, and Lamo is engaged in penning his reply." (Now deleted)
 http://www.webcitation.org/5qmxeKgC3

  #andystangby #greenwald #lamo #pressrelease Andy Stangby distances himself from Greenwald rebuttal, Lamo's claims
 "I have never represented myself as an award winning journalist. This was Adrian's choice of phrasing. I have recused myself from this venture due to Adrian's misrepresentation of my credentials"
 http://adrianlamologs.blogspot.com/2010/06/andy-stangby-adrian-lamo.html

  #andystangby #greenwald #lamo #pressrelease New rebuttal press release issued with no mention of Stangby
 "A journalist was tapped to fact-check Greenwald's work, and Lamo is engaged in penning his reply."
 http://www.prlog.org/10761622-ex-hacker-adrian-lamo-to-accept-saloncoms-offer-to-rebut-wikileaks-bradley-manning-story.html



2010-06-25 #assange #dailytech #lamo #wikileaks Lamo calls for Assange to step down
 "Lamo is calling on Wikileaks chief and ex-hacker Julian Assange to step down."
 http://www.dailytech.com/ExHacker+Calls+on+Wikileaks+Head+to+Step+Down+Following+Second+Third+Source+Identity+Breach/article18853.htm



2010-06-24 #chatlogs #dailytech #lamo #source #wikileaks Lamo claims Wikileaks outed him as source
 Lamo tells us he sent the logs to Wikileaks "To see if they'd be true to their ethos, and publish something, even if it incriminated a source, or if they'd cover it up. I wanted to pose a catch-22. They did neither. [T]hey passed them on to a disgruntled ex-fan who knows my ex-wife[.] ID'ing me as the source. They broke their own rules. Any source that pisses them off could face termination, prison, or worse."
 http://www.dailytech.com/EXCLUSIVE+Wikileaks+Betrays+ExHacker+Lamo+Outs+Him+as+Source/article18841.htm



2010-06-22 #hackerswanted #lamo #nadim Nadim chatlogs released
 
 http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/365318.html



2010-06-19 #boingboing #chatlogs BoingBoing publishes "less redacted" chatlogs
 "We just received this from a source requesting anonymity. It purports to be a more complete transcript of a portion of Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning's conversation with Adrian Lamo, the hacker who reported Manning to authorities."
 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/19/wikileaks-a-somewhat.html



2010-06-17 #confidentiality #lamo #manning Lamo says Manning had confidentiality under minister/confession, journalist/source relationship
 "Indeed, Lamo told me (though it doesn't appear in the chat logs published by Wired) that he told Manning early on that he was a journalist and thus could offer him confidentiality for everything they discussed under California's shield law. Lamo also said he told Manning that he was an ordained minister and could treat Manning's talk as a confession, which would then compel Lamo under the law to keep their discussions confidential"
 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks



2010-06-15 #chatlogs #lamo #source #wikileaks Lamo outself as wikileaks chatsource on twitter
 @wikileaks You still haven't posted the Manning Confession submitted to you, but that'd be it. 8:06 AM Jun 15th via web
 http://www.webcitation.org/5qyj6z5yo



2010-06-12 #lamo #pressrelease #wikileaks Lamo refuses demand by Wikileaks to cease discussing potential espionage by Bradley Manning
 Adrian Lamo refused a demand by Wikileaks today that he cease discussing potential espionage by Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst fingered in a recent leak probe after his own confessions during an instant message chat.
 http://www.webcitation.org/5r12X1uTq



2010-06-11 #assange #chatlogs #lamo #wikileaks Assange asks Lamo for chatlogs
 "Manning’s defence team, which I have commisioned, urgently requires all emails and chat logs you alleged to have come from Mr. Manning. Please send them to me, if necessary through our online submission system. They will be used strictly for Mr. Manning’s defence, but must be complete."
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-to-lamo/

  #assange #chatlogs #lamo #wikileaks Lamo claims he will not provide chatlogs to Assange
 “No, I’m not going to give the logs to someone who suggests that I might have been drug-addled when I decided to turn in a spy,”
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-to-lamo/#more-16841

  #feds #manning State department say they are analyzing Mannings hardrives
  Well, we are doing a damage assessment. I think also today, Diplomatic Security is assisting in forensic analysis of the hard drives that – to just determine, to verify that, in fact, the leak took place, and also to see if we can identify which documents within the network were potentially compromised.
 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/06/143011.htm

  #lamo #manning #pressrelease " Adrian Lamo Clarifies Role In Bradley Manning Wikileaks Arrest"
 "A cop may be considered to be on-duty 24 hours a day, but a journalist can pick his stories," Lamo said today. "Manning approached me out of the blue, and I elected to act as a source for Wired News rather than proceed as a journalist myself, due to my involvement in the story," Lamo added.
 http://www.webcitation.org/5rBWXQYG7



2010-06-10 #chatlogs #poulsen #wired #zetter Wired publishes partial chat logs
 
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/

  #lamo #nadim Nadim confronts Lamo
 Nadim I am very, very angry. Nadim For what you did to Manning. Adrian *to* manning? Encrypted OTR chat initiated. - 7:21 Adrian He's a traitor at best.
 http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/365318.html

  #chatlogs #lamo #source #wikileaks Lamo tells risky.biz he gave wikileaks the chatlogs
 "Adrian Lamo on the line there. Lamo also told me he submitted those chat logs between him and Manning to wikileaks and it's their decision whether or not they want to publish them ..."
 http://www.risky.biz/lamo

  #chatlogs #lamo #washingtonpost Lamo provides chatlogs to Washington Post
 The logs of messages between Manning and Adrian Lamo, provided to The Washington Post by Lamo, reveal a young man who was at once privy to government material of the highest sensitivity and confronting a personal crisis of the highest order. Note: different parts of chatlogs appear than in Wired
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060906170.html



2010-06-09 #confidentiality #lamo #manning Lamo claims Manning rejected offer of confidentiality
 In an interview with Yahoo! News, Lamo says that he spelled out very clearly in his chats with Manning that he wasn't affiliated with WikiLeaks or acting as a journalist. Lamo even offered, he says, to speak to Manning as a reporter and to protect his identity — and Manning refused. "I told him, 'Look — I am a journalist, and California [where Lamo lives] has a shield law,' " Lamo says. "I asked him if he wanted that choice, and he did not." It's unclear why Manning would reject such an offer.
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100609/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2492



2010-06-07 #lamo #manning #pressrelease "Adrian Lamo to respond to arrest of PFC Manning"
 (I-Newswire) June 7, 2010 - Sacramento, CA -- celebrated ex-hacker Adrian Lamo plans to respond by Tuesday, Jun 8 to allegations that he was instrumental in the arrest of PFC Manning.
 http://www.webcitation.org/5r3gqTrnx



2010-06-06 #lamo #manning #poulsen #wired #zetter First article published by Wired on Manning's arrest.
 
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/



2010-06-02 #poulsen #wired #zetter Kim Zetter brought in on story
 "Zetter says she was brought on to the story on the evening of June 2."
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php?page=2



2010-06-01 #chatlogs #lamo #poulsen Lamo lifts chatlog embargo
 "Lamo did not lift the embargo until June 1"
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php?page=2



2010-05-29 #feds #manning Manning confined according to charge sheet
 "Pre-trial confinement 29 MAY 10"
 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-will-press-crimin.html



2010-05-28 #lamo #manning #poulsen Lamo tells Poulsen about Manning's arrest
 "Lamo told Poulsen on the morning of May 28 that, at the previous day’s meeting, he had been told Manning had been arrested the day before—May 26."
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php?page=2



2010-05-27 #chatlogs #greenwald #lamo #manning 3pm Poulsen receives logs from Lamo under embargo
 "Several days passed before he was willing to give me the chat logs under embargo. I got them on May 27. That's when I learned Manning's name and the full details of his claims to Adrian." -- Kevin Poulsen to Glenn Greenwald
 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks

  #feds #lamo 4pm Lamo’s scheduled second meeting with the feds, discovers Manning arrested
 "On May 27, before Lamo’s scheduled second meeting with the feds was set to take place that afternoon at 4 pm" "Lamo told Poulsen on the morning of May 28 that, at the previous day’s meeting, he had been told Manning had been arrested the day before—May 26."
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php

  #feds #manning Mannings last activity on SIPR according to charge sheet
 "on or about May 27th, intentionally exceed his authorized access"
 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-will-press-crimin.html



2010-05-26 #chatlogs #lamo #poulsen Poulsen asks for chat logs from Lamo again, Lamo consents if embargoed
 "On May 26, he asked for the chat logs again, and Lamo agreed to provide them on two conditions: that he treat them as embargoed until Lamo assented, and that Poulsen would have to drive to the Sacramento area and meet him—Lamo thought them too sensitive to send electronically."
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php

  #feds #manning Manning arrested? -- conflicts with charge sheet
 Lamo told Poulsen on the morning of May 28 that, at the previous day’s meeting, he had been told Manning had been arrested the day before—May 26.
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php

  #lamo #webster Lamo contacts Timothy Webster about Manning (?)
 A former Army counterintelligence agent said Wednesday he helped point military authorities to a soldier who is under scrutiny in the massive leak of secret war records to a self-described whistleblower website.

Timothy Webster, 30, of Santa Barbara, Calif., said a Sacramento-based computer hacker called him May 26 with a hypothetical question: What would you do if a soldier told you he had leaked classified information?

(Note inconsistent dates)
 



2010-05-24 #lamo #poulsen Poulsen’s initial phone call from Lamo
 "Poulsen’s initial phone call from Lamo didn’t come until May 24, after Lamo had already contacted federal authorities, and was set to meet with them for the first time the next day."
 http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wikileaks_alleges_collusion.php



2010-05-21 #lamo #manning #wired Initial Lamo/Manning chat according to Wired
 
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-chat/



2010-05-20 #aspergers #lamo #poulsen #wired Wired publishes Lamo Aspergers article written by Kevin Poulsen
 "Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger’s"
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/

  #lamo #manning Lamo claims Manning first emailed him
 "Lamo told me that Manning first emailed him on May 20" -- Glenn Greenwald
 http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks

  #hackerswanted #lamo #poulsen #wired Poulsen publishes Wired story about "Hackers Wanted" leak
 "After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday." -- Wired
 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/hackers-wante/

  #hackerswanted #lamo "Hackers Wanted" documentary released on piratebay
 
 http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5573874/Hackers_Wanted_%282008%29



2010-05-05 #aspergers #drugs #lamo #nadim Nadim learns Aspergers article to be released
 Lauren: he's going public with the whole experience next week through wired. Lauren: but I doubt the part with his true struggle with drugs and his history with them will be disclosed Lauren: mainly the article is going to be about hackers and such with aspergers Lauren: he told me that today. but who knows if Kevin poulsen will go through with it.
 http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/365318.html



2010-04-29 #chatlogs #drugs #lamo #nadim Lamo at Sacremental mental health for drug problems
 Lauren: he is now at sacramento mental health Lauren: Nadim. He doesn't want to be talked to. Nadim: Why mental institutions?? Is it really that bad??? Nadim: I'm shocked and hurt Lauren: Yes. Lauren: You couldn't ever tell by the speech slurring, and the lack to follow through with things? Lauren: So many medications.
 http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/365318.html



2010-04-23 #hackerswanted #lamo #nadim Lamo implies he is going to have "Hackers Wanted" leaked
 Nadim: I now have the capacity to leak Hackers Wanted Nadim: Letting you down on that front in the past's left a mark in my memory Nadim: I haven't forgotten =) Adrian: Why do you put up with me>? I´m often a jerk, arrogant, totally sure of my theories, and willing to crash and burn to make a point. Adrian: Make no mistake, you;re one of roughly fie people I trust.
 http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/40/365318.html



2010-04-05 #manning #wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video released
 
 http://www.collateralmurder.com/

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Stop Snitching Nerds

"You've seen it once, you've seen it a thousand times. Snitches, in whatever community they're destroying, always defend themselves by trying to cloud the issue with the same old cries of, "You have no idea what *you* would have done since you weren't in my shoes!" It's like watching a smirking frat boy at a party zipping up his pants as he's strutting away from a passed out mangled coed, saying, "Come on, you have no idea know what *you* would have done if you'd been the one to find an unconscious hot chick!" -- http://www.stopsnitchingnerds.blogspot.com/
Great idea, though personally I'd like to see a "Snitches Get Stitches" t-shirt with Adrian Lamo's face on it.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Adrian Lamo Outs Self as Wikileaks Source Fourteen Days Before DailyTech Article

In a article published on June 24th on the DailyTech site entitled "EXCLUSIVE: Wikileaks Betrays Ex-Hacker Lamo, Outs Him as Source" [1] Adrian Lamo claims that wikileaks outed him as an anonymous wikileaks source, breaking their own rules:
Lamo tells us he sent the logs to Wikileaks "To see if they'd be true to their ethos, and publish something, even if it incriminated a source, or if they'd cover it up. I wanted to pose a catch-22. They did neither. [T]hey passed them on to a disgruntled ex-fan who knows my ex-wife[.] ID'ing me as the source. They broke their own rules. Any source that pisses them off could face termination, prison, or worse."
Adrian Lamo also gave an interview with Australian compsec journalist Patrick Gray on the his risky.biz podcast site [2] which was published on June 10th, fourteen days earlier. Directly after the interview at around 35 minutes and 10 seconds into the podcast Patrick Gray can be heard to state:
"Adrian Lamo on the line there. Lamo also told me he submitted those chat logs between him and Manning to wikileaks and it's their decision whether or not they want to publish them ..."
As one astute reader on risky.biz points out [3], in a Wired article published on June 11th, one day later [4], Adrian Lamo claims he will not give the logs to wikileaks:
“No, I’m not going to give the logs to someone who suggests that I might have been drug-addled when I decided to turn in a spy,” says Lamo, who takes prescription medication for depression and Asperger’s Disorder. “Private Manning’s attorney can get them by discovery like everyone else.”

UPDATE 29/06/10: DailyTech has published a retraction... (of sorts) at [5]

[1] http://www.dailytech.com/EXCLUSIVE+The+Complete+Confession+of+Manning+Leaked+by+Wikileaks/article18841.htm
[2] http://risky.biz/lamo (Direct MP3 link: http://media.risky.biz/RB154.mp3)
[3] http://risky.biz/forum/risky-business-154-adrian-lamo-why-i-turned-informer#comment-431 [4] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/wikileaks-to-lamo/
[5] http://www.dailytech.com/Adrian+Lamo+Outed+Self+As+Source+in+Bradley+Manning+Case/article18880.htm

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Andy Stangby & Adrian Lamo

"Award-winning journalist Andy Stangby was tapped to fact-check Greenwald's work, and Lamo is engaged in penning his reply." From "Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo to Accept Salon.com's Offer to Rebut Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Story" [1]

I had never heard of "Award-winning journalist Andy Stangby" and could find next to nothing on the web about him, so I decided to ask about him on Adrian Lamo's facebook [2] . Andy Stangby replied to my question:

Speaks for itself really.

* http://bit.ly/bL0FO5 == http://arc.losrios.edu/~sports/mgolf/pictures-past.htm

UPDATE: Andry Stangby's reply has since been deleted. Lucky I got a screenshot ;)

UPDATE #2: Adrian Lamo has deleted the original press release [1], fortunately I also made a screenshot of that too ;)

Another copy of the press release can be viewed at [3]

UPDATE #3: Adrian Lamo has now deleted his facebook post [2]

UPDATE #4: Lamo has now deleted the prlogs press release as well [3], webcitation http://www.webcitation.org/5qmxeKgC3 still works. He has published a new press release without the reference to Andy Stangby at [4]

[1] http://www.i-newswire.com/ex-hacker-adrian-lamo-to-accept/45318 (Deleted)
[2] http://www.facebook.com/felon?v=wall&story_fbid=127814910589754 (Deleted)
[3] http://www.prlog.org/10761349-ex-hacker-adrian-lamo-to-accept-saloncoms-offer-to-rebut-wikileaks-bradley-manning-story.html (Deleted) (Webcitation: http://www.webcitation.org/5qmxeKgC3)
[4] http://www.prlog.org/10761622-ex-hacker-adrian-lamo-to-accept-saloncoms-offer-to-rebut-wikileaks-bradley-manning-story.html

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Adrian Lamo Logs

These logs originally appeared on pastebin.ca as "The Truth About Adrian Lamo" and have been confirmed by Nadim as genuine.

The salient facts contained in these logs is that a) Lamo got "Hackers Wanted" leaked despite denying that he had anything to do with it and b) he was taken into psychiatric care for a drug problem rather than for "Aspergers" as he claimed. If you read http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/ along with these logs the story makes a lot more sense.

Cops don't institutionalize people for acting weird, RE: the homeless.

You can just imagine it:

COP #1: "Worst case of Aspergers I've ever seen!"
COP #2: "Sweet jesus... I'm calling for an ambulance now."

Yeah, I don't think so. They *will* call an ambulance if you're so mashed they think you're at risk of dying from an overdose, however.

NOTE: Adrian Lamo appears to be systematically attempting to remove these logs from the net. Roll of honour: http://pastebin.com/7XsPFFyX, http://pastie.textmate.org/1015569, http://pastebin.com/PDTUGLNZ & http://pastebin.ca/1888965 (entire site nuked?!) all now sadly deceased. A copy is available at Nadim Kobeissi's shell server site here http://kaepora.users.anapnea.net/nadimlogs.txt

Just to make it clear the above is all my own commentary and was not part of the original file as found on pastebin.ca

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Logs between Nadmin and Lamo's wife Laura, and Nadim and Lamo, as sent to WikiLeaks by Nadim

Following Adrian Lamo's recent exposure of Bradley Manning, I reveal chat logs with Lauren Lamo (Adrian Lamo's wife), incriminating him in many ways.
These chat logs are dated. They are related to the recent Wired exclusive interview with Lamo, which, as you'll soon find out, was complete bullshit:

APRIL 23 2010

Nadim: I now have the capacity to leak Hackers Wanted
Nadim: Letting you down on that front in the past's left a mark in my memory
Nadim: I haven't forgotten =)
Adrian: Why do you put up with me>? I´m often a jerk, arrogant, totally sure of my theories, and willing to crash and burn to make a point.
Adrian: Make no mistake, you;re one of roughly fie people I trust.

APRIL 29 2010

Lauren: he is now at sacramento mental health
Lauren: Nadim. He doesn't want to be talked to.
Nadim: Why mental institutions?? Is it really that bad???
Nadim: I'm shocked and hurt
Lauren: Yes.
Lauren: You couldn't ever tell by the speech slurring, and the lack to follow through with things?
Lauren: So many medications.
Nadim: I haven't spoken vocally with him in a while
Nadim: But yes, I confronted him about his lack of following up only last week
Lauren: my love wasn't enough to get him to change, and i meant the world to him.
Nadim: I thought he wasn't changing at all!
Nadim: I thought he was simply distancing himself from me!
Lauren: i made him want to change his life, nadim. and I don't just say this to boast or make myself seem more important.
Nadim: And I said to myself I'd let him do it since he probably has more important things in his life
Nadim: He never ever mentioned drugs
Nadim: Ever
Nadim: I kept asking him for months wtf was happening
Nadim: Why he was getting so distant and hard to reach
Nadim: He was such a conversationalist when I first met him!
Lauren: he is very very VERY private about his personal lfie.
Lauren: life"
Nadim: I trust him to be
Lauren: he has a persona, "Adrian Lamo" he thinks he must keep up.
Nadim: I know about that.
Nadim: God damn it
Nadim: Such a spirit
Nadim: It's just ugly
Nadim: Such a spirit to have a flaw so tragic and at the same time so meaningless
Nadim: Why prescription drugs???
Nadim: I understand the exact name of the drugs ought to be private info, but could you at least tell me what the drugs did?
Nadim: I mean, were they painkillers? amphetamines? what?
Lauren: It's hard to explain, he is very sensitive and in touch with every part of his body, down to the pulses in his brain and the nerve endings... the meds he takes he regulates it all but its just too much.
Nadim: Ah
Nadim: There were 2600 articles published about "hacking your brain" with certain "boosting" medications
Nadim: Is this related?
Lauren: It has crippled him, into living like this, and without these meds, he can't function, or so he thinks.
Lauren: I suppose.
Lauren: The first and only time he ever stayed at my parents home in phoenix he stole a bunch of my mothers medication (one that he too happened to be taking normally) and gave us quite a scare in the morning.
Nadim: Adrian doesn't trust people, but makes his entire functioning dependent on drugs?
Nadim: I'm angry at him.
Nadim: He could have so easily avoided such a trap
Lauren: so lackadaisical he was spilling his coffee all over himself burning his legs and falling over speaking nonsense.
Nadim: What's his side of the story? He must have constructed many arguments in his defense.
Lauren: It's been a long time coming.
Nadim: :(!
Lauren: A movie recently made me realize what its like for adrian and for those on the outside. It was a terrible cheesy movie but it was about the start of Alc-anon.
Nadim: Does he think the people around him don't understand?
Nadim: That they're exagerating and picking up wrong signals?
Lauren: Yes, and he thinks we all just want him to be "normal" and not take any drugs.
Lauren: he doesnt realize he seems drunk and slurs and sways.
Lauren: Half the time he doesn't remember it.
Nadim: Fuck
Nadim: What treatment is he receiving?
Nadim: Are his parents alright?
Lauren: I once picked him up, drove him with me to the clinic I needed to go to on a saturday, prior to going to the clinic we went through the drive thru for mcdonalds bfast, i got him a coffee and two breakfast sandwiches and even returned from the hospital and after our nap we took when we arrived back, he woke up and said "oh my god, im so sorry we didnt go to the clinic"
Lauren: He will be receiving "time" really. Supervised, only prescribed medication at prescribed times. I've been through this process so it's a lot easier knowing what he is going through.
Lauren: He will have counselling classes with other abusers whether alcohol, hard drugs, just mentally ill or even folks like him, rx drug abusers.
Nadim: I really wish there was anything I could do. It's painful to sit there watching him suffer
Lauren: He isn't suffering.
Lauren: We are helping him stop the suffering.
Nadim: When you told him that you guys did indeed go to the clinic, how did he react??
Lauren: His family was so worried they called the paramedics/firefighters to where they knew he was hanging out, since he decided to choose the highway when they asked him, adrian please let us help you with your medications. or we will not give them to you to administer on your own.
Lauren: so he filled a final rx he had money for at the rite-aid pharmacy and was found just taking them like candy.
Lauren: he was just like... oh.
Lauren: i found him, when i picked him up that morning, lying on the floor, twisted up as if he had fallen and dropped dead, in his clothes on his wires and tech. just down. drooling. from being so gone.
Lauren: i shook him and shook him, he would wake up and go huh, and then drop his head hard back on the carpet.
Lauren: and fall asleep again.
Lauren: the people at the clinic were mocking him, acting drunk and play swaying, and humiliating me. (and him, but he would never know)
Lauren: I told him via text how it humiliated me and he got mad and said i say the harshest things.
[...]
Lauren: his hacking days, i believe were all because of his drug use. he was able to do it.
Lauren: also part of the reason his mouth is rotten.
Lauren: and he breaks teeth on random things.

MAY 5 2010

Lauren: he's going public with the whole experience next week through wired.
Lauren: but I doubt the part with his true struggle with drugs and his history with them will be disclosed
Lauren: mainly the article is going to be about hackers and such with aspergers
Lauren: he told me that today. but who knows if Kevin poulsen will go through with it.

JUNE 10 2010

Nadim
I am very, very angry.
Nadim
For what you did to Manning.
Adrian
*to* manning?
Encrypted OTR chat initiated. - 7:21
Adrian
He's a traitor at best.
Nadim
You liar.
Adrian
His own words damn him, not mine.
Nadim
His own words, that you gave to the FBI.
Nadim
That he confided in you
Adrian
Army CI, to be exact.
Nadim
Same as you confided in Wired about your "asperger's arrest"
Nadim
Oh, by the way
Nadim
I know the truth about that.
Nadim
And about many other things too
Nadim
And I'm going to make you pay.
Adrian
Do what you feel you need to do.
Nadim
You got it.

END OF CHAT LOGS

I really don't care about anonymity. I care about earning Manning some degree of justice, what with Lamo's blatant betrayal. Contact me if you wish.

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Transcript of the alleged log between Lamo and Manning
as sent to Wikileaks by Lamo. The transcript is clearly only a small
portion and had unmistakedly been edited, for instance, note the
duplication of some lines around (12:26:09). Also note the use of
the word "Confession".

(12:15:11 PM) bradass87: hypothetical question: if you had free reign over
classified networks for long periods of time... say, 8-9 months... and you
saw incredible things, awful things... things that belonged in the public
domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC...
what would you do?
(12:16:38 PM) bradass87: or Guantanamo, Bagram, Bucca, Taji, VBC for that
matter...
(12:17:47 PM) bradass87: things that would have an impact on 7 billion
people
(12:21:24 PM) bradass87: say... a database of half a million events during
the iraq war... from 2004 to .. with reports, date time groups,
lat-lon locations, casualty figures... ? or 260,000 state department
cables from embassies and consulates all over the world, explaining how
the first world exploits the third, in detail, from an internal
perspective?
(12:22:49 PM) bradass87: the air-gap has been penetrated... =L
(12:23:19 PM) Adrian: how so?
(12:26:09 PM) Adrian: yt?
(12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,
has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the ones
described... and been transferring that data from the classified networks
over the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,
compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white haired
aussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L
(12:27:13 PM) bradass87: im here
(12:27:24 PM) Adrian: Depends. What are the particulars?
(12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think
(12:29:52 PM) Adrian: I don't understand.
(12:30:13 PM) bradass87: what was the last message you recieved?
(12:30:47 PM) Adrian: (12:28:19 PM) bradass87: theres substantial lag i think
(12:30:56 PM) bradass87: before that
(12:31:09 PM) Adrian:
(12:26:09 PM) bradass87: lets just say *someone* i know intimately well,
has been penetrating US classified networks, mining data like the ones
described... and been transferring that data from the classified networks
over the "air gap" onto a commercial network computer... sorting the data,
compressing it, encrypting it, and uploading it to a crazy white haired
aussie who can't seem to stay in one country very long =L
(12:27:13 PM) bradass87: im here
(12:27:24 PM) Adrian: Depends. What are the particulars?
(12:31:43 PM) bradass87: crazy white haired dude = Julian Assange
(12:33:05 PM) bradass87: in other words... ive made a huge mess :'(
(12:35:17 PM) bradass87: im sorry... im just emotionally fractured
(12:39:12 PM) bradass87: im a total mess
(12:41:54 PM) bradass87: i think im in more potential heat than you ever were
(12:41:54 PM) Adrian : I have more messages than resources
allocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(12:45:59 PM) Adrian: not mandatorily
(12:46:08 PM) Adrian: there are always outs
(12:46:17 PM) Adrian: how long have you helped WIkileaks?
(12:49:09 PM) bradass87: since they released the 9/11 "pager messages"
(12:49:38 PM) bradass87: i immediately recognized that they were from an
NSA database, and i felt comfortable enough to come forward
(12:50:20 PM) bradass87: so... right after thanksgiving timeframe of 2009
(12:52:33 PM) bradass87: Hilary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats
around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one
morning, and finds an entire repository of classified foreign policy is
available, in searchable format to the public... =L
(12:53:41 PM) bradass87: s/Hilary/Hillary
(12:54:47 PM) Adrian: What sort of content?
(12:56:36 PM) Adrian: brb cigarette
(12:56:43 PM) Adrian: keep typing <3>: I have more messages than resources
allocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(1:11:54 PM) bradass87: and... its important that it gets out... i feel,
for some bizarre reason
(1:12:02 PM) bradass87: it might actually change something
(1:13:10 PM) bradass87: i just... dont wish to be a part of it... at least
not now... im not ready... i wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of
my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of
having pictures of me... plastered all over the world press... as boy...
(1:14:11 PM) bradass87: i've totally lost my mind... i make no sense...
the CPU is not made for this motherboard...
(1:14:42 PM) bradass87: s/as boy/as a boy
(1:30:32 PM) bradass87: >sigh< (1:31:40 PM) bradass87: i just wanted enough time to figure myself out... to be myself... and be running around all the time, trying to meet someone else's expectations (1:32:01 PM) bradass87: *and not be (1:33:03 PM) bradass87: im just kind of drifting now... (1:34:11 PM) bradass87: waiting to redeploy to the US, be discharged... and figure out how on earth im going to transition (1:34:45 PM) bradass87: all while witnessing the world freak out as its most intimate secrets are revealed (1:35:06 PM) bradass87: its such an awkward place to be in, emotionally and psychologically (1:35:06 PM) Adrian : I have more messages than resources
allocatable to action them. Please be very patient.
(1:39:03 PM) bradass87: i cant believe what im confessing to you :'(
(1:40:20 PM) bradass87: ive been so isolated so long... i just wanted to
be nice, and live a normal life... but events kept forcing me to figure
out ways to survive... smart enough to know whats going on, but helpless
to do anything... no-one took any notice of me
(1:40:43 PM) bradass87: :'(
(1:43:51 PM) Adrian: back
(1:43:59 PM) bradass87: im self medicating like crazy when im not toiling
in the supply office (my new location, since im being discharged, im not
offically intel anymore)
(1:44:11 PM) bradass87: you missed a lot...
(1:45:00 PM) Adrian: what kind of scandal?
(1:45:16 PM) bradass87: hundreds of them
(1:45:40 PM) Adrian: like what? I'm genuinely curious about details.
(1:46:01 PM) bradass87: i dont know... theres so many... i dont have the
original material anymore
(1:46:18 PM) bradass87: uhmm... the Holy See and its position on the
Vatican sex scandals
(1:46:26 PM) Adrian: play it by ear
(1:46:29 PM) bradass87: the broiling one in Germany
(1:47:36 PM) bradass87: im sorry, there's so many... its impossible for
any one human to read all quarter-million... and not feel overwhelmed...
and possibly desensitized
(1:48:20 PM) bradass87: the scope is so broad... and yet the depth so rich
(1:48:50 PM) Adrian: give me some bona fides ... yanno? any specifics.
(1:49:40 PM) bradass87: this one was a test: Classified cable from US
Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave dated 13 Jan 2010
(1:50:30 PM) bradass87: the result of that one was that the icelandic
ambassador to the US was recalled, and fired
(1:51:02 PM) bradass87: thats just one cable...
(1:51:14 PM) Adrian: Anything unreleased?
(1:51:25 PM) bradass87: i'd have to ask assange
(1:51:53 PM) bradass87: i zerofilled the original
(1:51:54 PM) Adrian: why do you answer to him?
(1:52:29 PM) bradass87: i dont... i just want the material out there... i
dont want to be a part of it
(1:52:54 PM) Adrian: i've been considering helping wikileaks with opsec
(1:53:13 PM) bradass87: they have decent opsec... im obviously violating it
(1:53:34 PM) bradass87: im a wreck
(1:53:47 PM) bradass87: im a total fucking wreck right now

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