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"Homeless hacker’ may surrendamy FBI | CNET News.com @ Page 1 of 3 CNET tech sites: Price compansons | Pendust revinss | Tech news { Oca TECH NEWS FIRST Cnet NEws.COM Front Page | Enterprise | E-Business | Communications Personal fechnolos Search News Advanced search ‘Homeless hacker’ may surrender to FBI By Declan McCullagh Staff Writer, CNET News.com September 5, 2003, 4:00 PM PT Latest Hez display on deskto RIM Soosts autor ell calls for biag standards Oracie lakes tig a Microsoft opens & site Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker who claims é responsibility for a series of high-profile electronic intrusions over| the last two years, is negotiating with the FBI to surrender over criminal charges. Security firny: IE y work Scientology ioss | hyperlinks legal Comcast. Faster Lamo, 22, said his attorney is talking with the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City over years eng unspecified allegations of criminal misconduct. On Thursday, FBI agents showed up at his Court: Pop-ups 1 parents' home in Sacramento, Calif., Lamo said in a telephone interview Friday evening, Net during which he would not disclose his location. Fujitsu takes new spin “(The FBI agents) went to my parents’ house to try to find me there," Lamo said. "Since then, ga sharpens bla I've been told they're looking for me. But I've had no direct contact with ther." RIAA sues 261 fil Mary French, a deputy public defender in Sacramento who is representing Lamo, provided a — Pioneer pushes n media writer statement that said: "We have confirmed that there is a sealed complaint from the Southern oe District of New York and a federal arrest warrant for (Lamo)." eyessen nabs wit . | , Apple speeds Lamo, whose brazen exploits, media savvy and rootless lifestyle have made him something en a “e of a legend in hacker circles, indicated that he's willing to give himself up after he learns what the charges against him are. "| wanted to know more about the counts against me, before | Bell Canada hear agreed to surrender to face them," he said. Intel unveils budg Piracy investigate On Aug. 22, Lama contacted CNET News.com to say he believed a federal criminal Australia case investigation of his intrusions into The New York Times’ computers had been accelerated. AOL Europe now But he was unabie to confirm the situation until the FBI agents showed up on Thursday, he for US said. Sun sees opporte plan “We have been cooperating with the authorities in their investigation of the security breach Retail lakes stock that happened in February 2002,” Christine Mohan, a spokeswoman for The New York Times 5 A - | This week's hear Co., said on Friday. “We've cooperated with them since that breach, and we're continuing to do so.” News Tool Mohan would not provide details of the cooperation. She would not say whether the company had filed a criminal complaint against Lamo after the intrusion took place. Get news by In that incident, which New York Times Digital confirmed at the time, Lamo was able to view Content licen i employee records, including Social Security numbers. He was also able to access the contact information for the paper's sources and columnists, including such well-known Display news http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5072268.htm1?tag=fd_top 9/8/2003 FBI(19-cv-1495)-1099