> Federal prosecutors ended Lamo's crusade after he hacked The New York Times and the paper pressed charges
Just watched an ad on football tonight about how they're pursuing the truth.
The Mysterious Death of the Hacker Who Turned in Chelsea Manning
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#32There are an awful lot of people turning up dead with connections to pending investigations and court cases lately...
sometimes the red part of the beach ball floats above the surface of the water, sometimes the yellow part does.
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#33There are quite a few mysteries about Wikileaks Arjen Kamphuis' "disappearance" too:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-14/missing-wikileaks-ass...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lamo was a twitchy little fuck with lots of enemies. He was a miserable person, always unhappy, plagued with mental illness, and a past spotted with fucked up relationships. The only people I have ever heard speak kindly of him are the press. I'd known the guy since 1999, and even back then, in the hacker circles, he was making enemies and pissing people off just by being a bad person in general... Seems like a text…
I watched an interview with him and what you say definitely feels true to me. I mean that guy snitched on the good guys, and Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his. Who the fuck does that? You can really see that he was plaqued by mental issues....
They weren't "really good friends;" TFA says that Lamo called two friends (who then called the feds) immediately after speaking to Manning for the first time.
>According to the documents, Lamo then placed a second call — this time to a business partner, a man named Chet Uber, and he told him what Manning had said. The business partner immediately left a message on the Army's Criminal Investigative Division tip line. That was on May 23, 2010, just two days after Lamo and Manning began their fateful exchange.
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#35There are an awful lot of people turning up dead with connections to pending investigations and court cases lately...
The question to ask (IMO) is are they dying at a higher rate than people not involved in court cases (adjusting for age, gender if appropriate), and even then I wouldn't be surprised if the stress of being involved in a court case causes a somewhat higher rate.
My suspicion is that you're only noticing it because they're in the public eye, and so reported, but the actual number of people dying of unexpected causes is not that remarkable.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watched an interview with him and what you say definitely feels true to me. I mean that guy snitched on the good guys, and Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his. Who the fuck does that? You can really see that he was plaqued by mental issues....
Especially at the time, it was really unclear whether Manning was "The good guys." It's honestly still a controversial opinion. Lots of people died from an Arab Spring that was kicked off by Libyans learning the State Dept's opinion of their government. The resulting revolutions wave left a trail of bodies but didn't make much change. The State Department keeps its opinions secret for a reason.
> Lots of people died from an Arab Spring that was kicked off by L̶i̶b̶y̶a̶n̶s̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ the State Dept's opinion of their government.
FTFY
> The resulting revolutions wave left a trail of bodies but didn't make much change.
A lot of the lack of change can be attributed to that same State Department. Secrets for a reason indeed.
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#37Al Jazeera Interview with Lamo:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-omBeZMxc
To me he looks very sedated or on something for sure
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watched an interview with him and what you say definitely feels true to me. I mean that guy snitched on the good guys, and Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his. Who the fuck does that? You can really see that he was plaqued by mental issues....
>Chelsea Manning was a really good friend of his Do you have a source for that? Look at the chats on wikipedia. The chat starts with an introduction then immidiately mentions access to classified networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#Chats
Reading those chats (and knowing absolutely nothing about Lamo other than what's in the NPR article) I can't really blame him for turning Manning in. A stranger reaches out to you over the internet and offers you free reign on classified military networks? 99.9% of the time that's a honeypot...
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#39There are an awful lot of people turning up dead with connections to pending investigations and court cases lately...
The question to ask (IMO) is are they dying at a higher rate than people not involved in court cases (adjusting for age, gender if appropriate), and even then I wouldn't be surprised if the stress of being involved in a court case causes a somewhat higher rate. My suspicion is that you're only noticing it because they're in the public eye, and so reported, but the actual number of people dying of unexpected causes is…
Is this your opinion on the Epstein death as well?
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#40Al Jazeera Interview with Lamo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-omBeZMxc To me he looks very sedated or on something for sure
jesus christ.....how can anyone be surprised he is dead after watching this video? that's the closest thing to a deadman giving an interview you'd ever see.