Adrian Lamo knows your number
How safe is the Internet today? Do you think your own personal data is safeguarded? If you have a website, do you think it can’t be hacked? Well, if you’re Adrian Lamo, you know the answer is simple: absolutely nothing is safe.
Lamo knows this from deep personal experience. He gained his own measure of fame back in 2001 and 2002 as a computer hacker. He allegedly accessed the databases of the largest companies in the world (Bank of America, Yahoo!, McDonalds, Citigroup) and quickly racked up an impressive track record as someone who would break into a corporate system and then let the “hackee” know about it. All of this came to a screeching halt in September, 2003 when he surrendered to the FBI and was sentenced to 2 years probation for computer crimes involving Microsoft and The New York Times.
