Saturday, June 19, 2010

Wikileaks Source Outed To Stroke Hacker's Own Ego

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/18/2146221/Wikileaks-Source-Outed-To-Stroke-Hackers-Own-Ego?art_pos=7
"Bradley Manning, the US Army private arrested recently by the Pentagon for providing classified documents — including the widely seen Apache helicopter videomay have been duped by wannabe hacker Adrian Lamo, according to Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. Lamo told Manning he could provide protection under both journalist shield laws, and the clergy-lay confidentiality tradition, and instead immediately turned him in to authorities in an act of apparent shameless self-promotion." The article also goes into Wired's role in the whole situation, the strange, sometimes sensationalist media coverage, and the odd similarity between this case and proposed scenarios in a US Intelligence report from earlier this year aimed at undermining Wikileaks.
The article had a pretty interesting background on the guy that released this info as well as the guy that turned him in.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks/index.html

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