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* Si Weekly | SIWeeKIY.COM | INEWS : Pedture A uty Ww liavnmutia matiiys > food or sleep. “I think 1 should stop by Carl's Jr. and get something to Dog Bites On his way out of the bathroom, Lamo nods his head at a nearby door, unmarked and anonymous. “Mast of betters the telephone switches for the Embarcadero are in there," he says, a glint returning to his eye, the merest the incoming call. "My attorney," he sighs, before a one of the most celebrated and controversial hacke "Lamo here." If you type the address eat." Culture Klatsch When the Burning Man folks met the Air Force guys, the desert camping tips flew Letters to the Editor Week of April 16, 2003 smile spreading across his cracked, thin lips. Then his cell phone peais, and it takes Lamo a few heartbeats to identify the number of phone in the kind of crisp, authoritative monotone you'd expect from Uw ee Je ie Me nswering his rs in the world: Internet browser, you'll see the following message, Lamo," number is 505-HACK. ("Everyone assumes there wi the upper right-hand corner, the only thing to iook see me ail the time, they just can't remember how (pronounced Lah-mo), it's considerably harder to g collection agency.” into the New York Times and pilfering, among othe! Security numbers, editing notes, and reimburseme: Jimmy Carter. Media reports about the incident wet http://www.sfweekly.com/ igsues/2003-04-16/feature.html/1 /index.btml wunw.sfweekly.com/Examples/FileLibrary /I Files/y0.txt into your ona white background: "Confidential to Matt Paimquist: Sorry I never really got back to you when you emailed. Give me a ring! -- Adrian Reaching Adrian Lamo is not particularly difficult. His cell phone wrongdoing involved," he says of obtaining the number, “but like with so many things, all you have to deo is ask.") His e-mail address is adrian@adrian.ora, which you can locate with ease on Lamo's very own Web site (http: //adrian.adrian.org). He admits he’s not much at Web design, and his home page, whose header says “Faith manages,” is certainly stark: Other than a biurred, pixelated image of Lamo in pointed and trenchant, from the Bob Dylan song "Idiot Wind": “People are filled with big ideas, images, and distorted facts/ Even you, yesterday, you had to ask me where it was at/ I couldn't believe, after all these years, you didn't know me any better than that." In other words, though it's not hard to get in touch with Lamo and perhaps hardest stil] to actually meet him. "Who is this?” he asks when I call him one day in early 2003. "Oh, I thought you were a We'd been exchanging e-mails and phone messages for almost a year, ever since Lamo grabbed headlines around the world by hacking several of the Times‘ more high-profile op-ed contributors, among them William F, Buckley Jr., Robert Redford, and former President in plain black text as some atis a verse, to act/ Their minds et to know him -- r things, Social nt figures for re, on the whole, FBI(19-cv-1495)-175 6/20/2003