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'Homeless hacker' lobbies for home detention
News Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker accused of breaking into The New York Times' computer network, is planning to appear in court on Thursday to accept a plea bargain. Lamo is known for his homeless-hacker lifestyle.
[January 6, 2004, 8:25]
'Homeless hacker' free till court date
News In a telephone interview on Thursday evening, the so-called homeless hacker said he spent most of the day in handcuffs, but he was grateful that the government chose not to jail him overnight. Lamo has earned the "homeless hacker" moniker for his...
[September 12, 2003, 15:25]
'Homeless Hacker' may surrender to FBI
News Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker who claims responsibility for a series of high-profile electronic intrusions over the last two years, is negotiating with the FBI to surrender over criminal charges.
[September 8, 2003, 8:50]
IT chiefs join homeless for a night
News It's not a result of the dot-com crash --- on Saturday morning they will roll up their sleeping bags and dig out the car keys -- but an effort to raise money for young homeless people. The money raised goes directly to 50 projects run by the...
[September 17, 2001, 16:14]
Byte Night: Industry event to help the homeless
News Nobody has ever forced me to be homeless or sleep rough," said Mike Short, O2 VP. The homeless are at a disadvantage from the start. Steve Gill, Hewlett-Packard VP and MD for UK and Ireland, said: "It seems inconceivable that so many young people...
[June 18, 2004, 15:20]
Famous, rich and homeless
Blog Just been watching the new program on the BBC, five celebrities spending 10 days on the streets to find out what it's really like. It's really good to see this on prime time TV and showing some of the problems that we're trying to highlight with...
[June 25, 2009, 11:21]
Tech community rally around Katrina's victims
News The tech community is rallying around victims of Hurricane Katrina, offering technical assistance, aiding the homeless and gathering relief donations. The site is hosting pages listing volunteer opportunities and offers, pleas for information on...
[September 1, 2005, 16:35]
NTP woos US government in patent case
Talkback Personally I think that all the people bashing NTP for defending their rights should buy tents and set them up in their yards and invite the homeless to move in. They should raise a garden, do all the work themselves and allow the homeless to take...
[January 23, 2006, 2:34]
Jenny Agutter: Roughing IT in London
News Agutter, who shot to fame in the '70s film classic The Railway Children, is taking part in the tech industry's Byte Night event, in association with NCH, to raise money for young homeless people. Of course it is not the same; there is a bit of a...
[September 21, 2001, 16:49]
Law expert issues warning to open Wi-Fi operators
Blog Comment My inability to pay this will make me homeless as the only means of finding the money. Further since I will have made myself deliberately homeless no help in rehousing me will be forthcoming. Seems to me someone with millions in the bank & multiple...
[November 30, 2009, 8:31]
Techies reveal their creative side for charity
News The winner of the DesignIT competition, as it was called, was James Elliott, whose entry was developed with a Birmingham charity for the homeless, St Basils, in mind. I also created a belt that relates to dangerous items which the youth could...
[July 1, 2008, 15:32]
Byte Night hailed 'outstanding' success
News Friday night saw the IT community come out in support of Byte Night -- an annual event which raises money and awareness for charities battling against the problem of youth homeless in the UK. Early results indicate that we have raised in the region...
[September 22, 2003, 13:15]
Techies bring more aid to Earthquake zone
Blog Some good news from Pisco - site of some of the worst damage from last week's earthquake in Peru which killed 500 people and left 200,000 homeless. We covered the work of telecom engineer charity Telecoms Sans Frontieres earlier this week which is...
[August 24, 2007, 15:30]
Computer Aid: New life for old IT
Talkback the 'away' in thrown away just means 'somehwere else' - this is like finding some old medicines you forgot to take, and then giving them to some random homeless person - bloody dangerous - what happens to these machines when they are in economies...
[February 15, 2005, 8:25]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback USA is not short of homeless bums and beggers. somebody cared to bring up the poverty in India as a topic - well yes, out of the 1 billion people, there are all sorts of people. I live in USA, in NY. Now listen you all.
[June 15, 2006, 3:25]
Stuff Lizt Professional
Downloads Millions of people were suddenly homeless with no access to everyday resources including credit cards, photo identification, and insurance papers.Take some time to gather your vital records and store them in a portable, water-proof, fire-resistant...
[August 2, 2007, 8:00]
Restrictions lifted on NY Times hacker
News A federal judge on Friday said Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker, could go free on bail with only limited restrictions on his computer use until his next court date in October. US Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman kept Lamo's bail at the...
[September 15, 2003, 11:10]
Napster alternatives booming
News The 21 million-plus Napster users expecting to find themselves homeless on Friday have already begun migrating to Napigator, Angry Coffee and Gigabeat, music-sharing sites that have seen huge spikes in traffic and downloads.
[July 28, 2000, 8:19]
Quotes of the Week, August 25-29
News AstraSoft's Martin Pickering on Negroponte's allegations of 'Europe's digital homeless'. "Maybe we're too busy worrying about more cerebral matters such as creating classic cinema and writing great plays.
[August 29, 1997, 10:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog You'll remember last week, won't you, when Graeme Wearden professed himself puzzled by a strange BT video that appeared to be comparing its retail offering to a homeless waterfowl. Monday 16/1/2006 It struck a chord with Peter Clarke, a childhood...
[January 20, 2006, 17:25]
