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a ay OF Woesty { siweonty cult | ARCHIVE SEARCH © \fs2) NEWS & FEATURES DINING CULTURE NIGHT & DAY BEST OF siweekiv.com nine . FILL THE IDS * cTREETS. taaran.asea, AIDS. ANUWS y WELLE ba arte CU Lamwangt senate ene OT OT A Duty to Hack Adrian Lamo, the 22-year-old “homeless hacker" famous for raiding New York Times computers, pursues his vision of public service by cracking another major corporate network. It's a crime, of course. It's also what he was born to do. BY MATT PALMQUIST matt.palmauist@sfweeldy.com ‘CLASSIFIED a PROMOTIONS WEB EXTRA [ARCHIVE UNBUTTONED ESUBSCRIBE ABOUT US CAREERS: "Tell me the truth," says Adrian Lamo, ducking inte a public restroom in the Embarcadero Center on a chiily Mareh evening. " look like death, don't 1?" Well, he doesn’t look good. Lamo, who turned 22 a few days ago, didn't get any sleep last night; he says he was “in transit,” a fact to which his wrinkled cargo pants and rumpled brown jacket can plainly attest. His shoulders, as slight and bony as the rest of his frame, sag when he peers at his reflection in the scuffed mirror. "Yep," Lamo sighs, dropping his frayed backpack on the sink and turning on the faucet. "I look like death.” Dark circles bloom below his warm hazel eyes, his lids droop, and whenever he isn't blinking, which isn't often, his pupils swim beneath a glassy sheen. Biack and green spots mottle his yellow teeth; dirt crusts the edges of his ears. As he splashes water through his cropped brown hair, Lamo watches some of the color seep back into his face, whose angelic features appear pallid and ghostly at the best of times. "I'm feeling faint,” he says, his dry, nasal voice stumbling over a mild stammer, his face rippling from the occasional tic. Ever since an amphetamine overdose last year, Lamo says, he's apt to start convuilsing if he goes too long without Paolo Vescla Some days I have tim: to do things," says Lamo. "Other days are just a series of efforts to find out where I'm going to sleep that night." this weektin NEWS: HISHRONIRAG RS From the Week of Wednesday. Apri 16, 2003 Matt Smith Remembrance of a War Past An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and @ pro-war bully called Tony Hall Night Crawler Girls Wrestling in Jell-O While Bikers Howl What'd you expect on “Road Rash" night at Jezebel's Joint? FBI(19-cv-1495)-174 http://www sfweekly.com/issues/2003-04-16/feature html/I/index.html 6/20/2003 b6 b7C -l -1