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Adrian
Lamo, a Colombian-American threat analyst and former hacker, died in Sedgwick
County, Kansas on Friday, at the age of 37. He was best known for passing on
information that led to the arrest of Chelsea Manning.
Lamo
first gained media attention in the early 2000s for breaking into several
high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo,
and Microsoft, ending in his 2003 arrest when he eventually turned himself in.
However,
Lamo gained worldwide ill reputation in 2010 for disclosing to the FBI that the
U.S. soldier, Chelsea Manning had leaked confidential information to Wikileaks.
Manning had reached out to Lamo via a messaging app and told him that he had
gained access to hundreds of thousands of classified documents and had leaked
to Wikileaks a video of U.S. military forces in a helicopter machine madly
gunning down journalists and Iraqi civilians. But, Lamo chose to report him and
informed the U.S. military of the leak.
Held
responsible for the biggest leak of classified data in U.S. history, Manning
was declared guilty by court martial and was sentenced to 35 years in prison,
but was granted mercy by former President Barack Obama, who said his prison
term was "disproportionate".
Looking
back on his decision to give up Manning, Lamo told US News and World Report in 2017
that it was "not his most honorable moment".
However,
he added that he had learned a lot from the experience, including that
"you can't really know a person or their motives unless you've sat where
they sat and seen the situation through their eyes, no matter how much you
believe you do".