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Re:Adrian Lamo has died by adamnemecek on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:21PM (#16601673)
Was it ever found out why he did it? I don't know the guy but it just seems like idk, what is there to gain out of this?
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Re:Adrian Lamo has died by danso on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:25PM (#16602821)
Here's an article about a public defense he gave back in 2010:

https://gizmodo.com/5591905/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-def...

> He told the audience that he, like Manning and WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, had acted out of conscience. Lamo believed the cables were dangerous. "Holy fracken crap, there's 260,000 documents," he said, "Do you think you could look through those and make sure they wouldn't cause anybody's life to be lost?"

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Re:Adrian Lamo has died by VectorLock on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:56PM (#16602583)
He was alarmed that the indiscriminate leaking could provide dangerous to people's lives (which by some accounts, it was)
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Re:Adrian Lamo has died by dec0dedab0de on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:35PM (#16601770)
He had claimed CYA, because he assumed he was being watched. If I recall there were a few conspiracy theories at the time because He had recently been arrested, and then put on psychiatric medication as a result.
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Re:Adrian Lamo has died by powerkiddie on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:28PM (#16601723)
Check out Alex Gibney's We Steal Secrets. Lamo is featured quite a bit, in pretty intimate interviews.
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