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Basically i am supposed to deliver a presentation next week on the great Adrian Lamo!  Well, i already knew him a year ago from the Internet although i do not remember where now.  He is a person that sleeps over at his friends or at the abandoned buildings.  Although so, do not judge him as someone poor.  It is merely his intention to do so.  Adrian Lamo is someone rather adventurous that people call him the Homeless Hacker.

"To me," Lamo explains, "ending up in a city that I've never been to before, with no money, where I know nobody, and yet somehow making it work out is as much a unique and amazing exercise of faith as going to a computer network that I know nothing about and somehow finding myself in its innermost recesses."

Source: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/hacker.html

He became world famous when he hacked the New York Times intranet.  He does not code in C++ or Java nor can he find system exploits.  Instead, his primary tool was the web browser.  He trolls company websites and find holes in them.  He then notifies the company and help them fix the holes.  Although many may give their gratitude, not many will think the same.  When Adrian Lamo hacked New York Times, he added his real name to the list of op-ed writers.  Next, he notified Kevin Poulsen, a reporter for SecurityFocus.com.  Kevin Poulsen later called up the Times to verify the story.

Getting New York Times to realize the hole was exactly what Adrian Lamo wanted.  It was his MO.  Adrian Lamo is a grayhat hacker that helps companies find security holes in them and fix them.  However, New York Times find his actions illegal.  Times filed a complaint and a warrant was issued for Adrian Lamo's arrest in August 2003 following a 15 month investigation by federal prosecutors in New York.  On September 9 2003, he surrendered to the US Marshals in Sacramento, California after spending a few days hiding.  He later re-surrendered to the FBI in New York City on September 11 and pleaded guilty against Microsoft, Lexis-Nexis and New York Times on January 4, 2004.

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