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WikiLeaks 'Snitch' Hacker Faces Wrath of His Peers

By Sanjiv BhattacharyaJul 21st 2010 – 4:43PM
Dave Buchwald for AOL News

Dave Buchwald for AOL News

(July 21) -- The wanted-dead-or-alive posters described him as a "rat bastard." Then there was the spitting and name-calling, things like Snitch! and A**hole! Not to mention the death threats -- none credible enough to warrant Kevlar, but still, Adrian Lamo had good reason to check up on the security arrangements before...

Background on Emmanuel Goldstein

Emmanuel Goldstein is a character in George Orwell's classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the number one enemy of the people according to Big Brother and the Party, who heads a mysterious and possibly fictitious anti-party organization called The Brotherhood.

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