[Politech] Adrian Lamo, hacker-turned-journalism-student, speaks

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 21:56:51 PST

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    Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:14:11 -0800
    From: "Adrian Lamo" <adrian@private>
    To: "declan@private" <declan@private>
    Subject: update
    
    hey
    
    www.freelamo.com has an update. feel free to put its irrelevance on 
    politech :)
    
    Best regards.
    
    Adrian Lamo
    adrian@private
    2003-12-30
    
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    http://www.freelamo.com/4um/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=608
    
    Dear Friends,
    
    Alot of time has gone by since you heard from me, and some
    of you have moved on or lost interest, found better things
    to spend your time on, or otherwise ****ed off. That's fine.
    I expect nothing of anyone, and I've been lax in recognizing
    all the people who have given so much to make this site what
    it is today.
    
    I have not been indicted yet. I can't go into further detail
    at this time, except to say that I haven't rolled over on
    anyone for personal benefit.
    
    Times have been hard, and getting harder. I have dental bills
    and medical bills and school payments and classes and headaches.
    My life today is both the inverse of my life a year ago, and
    the exact same thing.
    
    Being away from the web in the ways I have been might have been
    difficult, but were ultimately .. seamless. Complex systems are
    complex systems, and interlock. My life is now what it was 365
    days ago. Computers don't have to be involved. Court orders can
    lay no hand on ways of seeing.
    
    I enjoy school. I am a journalism major. I think I just may be
    a journalist, and maybe give hacker-turned-journalists a better
    name :)
    
    The days since September 4th have hurt everyone I love, and hurt
    me, but I wouldn't change a moment. I wouldn't turn away from the
    courthouse steps. I wouldn't change the years that came before.
    
    I look to an ending for this particular plotline. Any action of
    mine, I own. I will not deny the consequences of my actions,
    real or alleged.
    
    Our lives come to us for reasons we don't always have standing
    to see, and in moments where sight fails, it's faith that keeps
    me going. Not in a deity, or a theology, or anything more than
    knowing that it's *about* something.
    
    We are more than the sum of our parts.
    
    I want to be daylight.
    
    -- Adrian Lamo
         Carmichael, CA
         12.29.2003 [twenty-oh-three]
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