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New Architect: Inside the a @ Page 1 of 6 & new.architect inoiaonin Internet Strategies for Technology Leaders ——— Mami’ MAGAZINE RESOURCES SUBSCRIBE ABOUT ADVERTISING searcl New Architect New Architect > Access Print-Friendly Version aily Commentary and updates on current access events and technologies Inside the Hacker Mind Adrian Lamo on sleeping late and riding America’s highways Research Search for reports and white papers from industry vendors and analysts. See your message here Interview by Christopher Null New Architect December 2002 This Week at NewArchitect.com Subscribe now to our free email newsletter and get notified when the site is updated with new articles Adrian Lamo, age twenty-one, is widely considered the most effective and prolific hacker working today. His conquests include Microsoft, NBC, and the New York Times. We woke Lamo up—at 1:30 in the afternoon—for some insight into what makes him tick. New Architect: Hey, are you up yet? Adrian Lamo: Yeah—in process of waking up and breakfasting. NA: Funny, it's past lunchtime here in SF. AL: You're too linear. NA: Where are you? AL: About two hours south of San Francisco, with some friends. NA: Most people think the stereotypical hacker lives alone in a windowless room. AL: Most of the rooms I sleep in have windows. I've had a few that didn't. Tossed tinfoil over the windows at the apartment I split in Richmond, Virginia for a few months. NA: Tinfoil? AL: Most neiahborhoods. tinfoil on the windows aets vou left alone. http://Awww.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2415/nal202r/ 9/8/2003 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1093