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The past two years have been a wild ride for Adrian Lamo: The 22-year-old has publicly taken credit for tunnelling into networks belonging to Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite@Home and WorldCom.
A US 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.
The Australian government has no plans to issue a warning similar to that of the US, which has warned its tech-savvy residents against so-called "patriotic hacking".
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