◆ SpookStack

NRRL 02/26/2002 03:15 PM b6 -1, -2,-3 bIC -1, -2,-3 To: co: Subject: I called back the reporter. __]to find out his deadline. He is filing by 4 PM EST today, so we'll need to draft a holding statement by then. LC “hiso said the hacker was fine with us to contacting him; described him as an unusual, “friendly hacker" who wants to help. I'm not sure how you've handled this in the past but here's his info: Adrian Lamo 415-505-4225 I did a Googie search on Lamo and turned up recent, similar articles by the same publication & reporter of today's query, FYI: Yahoo! News hacked Hacker tinkers with news articles undetected. By Kevin Poulsen http://online.seourityfocus.com/news/254. Sep 18 2001 4:25PM PT in a development that exposes grave risks of news manipulation in a time of crisis, a hacker demonstrated Tuesday that he could rewrite the text of Yahoo! News articles at will, apparently using nothing more than a web browser and an easily-obtained Internet address. Yahoo! News, which learned of the hack from SecurityFocus, says it has closed the security hole that allowed . 20-year-oid hacker Adrian Lamo to access the portal's web-based production tools Tuesday morning, and modify an August 23rd news story about Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian computer programmer facing federal criminal charges under . the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Lamo's Adventures in WorldCom The helpful hacker strikes again, this time finding a route into the communications company's private Web, then telling its security staff all about it. Who is Adrian Lamo, why does he do this, and would his life be the same if Kinkos kicked him out? By Kevin Poulsen Dec 5 2001 10:46AM PT | http://online.securityfocus.com/news/296 a. FBI(19-cv-1495)-94