NPR: What Killed Adrian Lamo, The Hacker Who Turned In Whistleblower Chelsea Manning?

[John Young]

The HOPE panel on snitching featured Lamo, but others on the panel 
told more informative tales.  Emmanuel Goldstein reminded that it was 
estimated that 25% of hackers were informers (as he said he was). 
Other panelists reported on what happens to those who snitch and 
those who do not.

If you haven't been interrogated and pressured by the feds, along 
with coercion of your family, friends and hacker buddies, and have a 
prison record to increase penalties for non-cooperation, you don't know shit.

Consider Lamo wondered if Manning was aiming to entrap, witting or 
unwitting. Still worth considering what backstabbing deals are in the 
works in the Assange global snitchfest.