[Solar-general] Fwd: Wired: "Hackers Wanted" Documentary Leaked Finally

Dom Mayo 23 02:22:23 CEST 2010

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From: Seth Johnson
"Lamo says the film had been bogged down by conflicts among the
producers and crew. 'It’s ironic that a film about overcoming
barriers, about new technologies, about thinking differently, had to
come to the public eye by being hacked out of the hands of people who,
after making a film about the free flow of information, tried to lock
away that information forever,' says Lamo. 'The truth tends to
itself.'"

> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/hackers-wante/

Lost Hacking Documentary Surfaces on Pirate Bay

By Kevin Poulsen

May 20, 2010

After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a
decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked
onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.

Narrated by actor Kevin Spacey, the 90-minute Hackers Wanted follows
the exploits of Adrian Lamo, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to cracking
the internal network of The New York Times. The film was produced by
Spacey’s Trigger Street production company, and includes interviews
with Kevin Rose and Steve Wozniak.

Lamo says the film had been bogged down by conflicts among the
producers and crew. "It’s ironic that a film about overcoming
barriers, about new technologies, about thinking differently, had to
come to the public eye by being hacked out of the hands of people who,
after making a film about the free flow of information, tried to lock
away that information forever," says Lamo. "The truth tends to
itself."

Lamo adds that he had nothing to do with the leak.

Lamo made his mark early in the decade with a string of brazen hacks
against large companies, characterized by a flair and sense of humor
that appear quaint in today’s era of for-profit hacking and
multi-million credit card theft.

In 2001, when he was 20, the hacker snuck into an unprotected
content-management tool at Yahoo’s news site to tinker with a Reuters
story, adding a made-up quote by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Lamo went on to stage other hacks, alerting the press to each one and
often working with the hacked company to close the security holes he
exploited. His targets included Microsoft, Excite en Home, Worldcom and
The New York Times, which pressed charges.

Unemployed and prone to wander the country by Greyhound, Lamo gained
the appellation "the Homeless Hacker." When he surrendered to face
charges for the Times hack, the Trigger Street camera crew was in tow.
He was ultimately sentenced to six months home confinement at his
parents’ house and two years of probation.

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