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WikiLeaks 'Snitch' Hacker Faces Wrath of His Peers

(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 Hackers on Planet Earth

HOPE (abbreviation of Hackers on Planet Earth, in addition to being the first two letters in "Hotel Pennsylvania", the venue where the conference is held) is a conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

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