Hackers Wanted

Delicious irony is always fun to discover, and the surfacing of an unreleased documentary from 2003 about the exploits of infamous computer hacker Adrian Lamo is just such a case. As reported by wired.com's Threat Level, the film was brought to the public eye and posted Thursday on the Swedish website The Pirate Bay through the efforts of hackers.

Lamo, shown at left earlier this month at the home of his parents in Carmichael, Calif., denied any involvement with the hackers, but such suspicion is not unwarranted since, as Threat Level put it, Lamo "made his mark in the early 2000s with a string of brazen but mostly harmless hacks against large companies," including The New York Times. He was later imprisoned briefly. The 90-minute documentary of his hacking exploits is called "Hackers Wanted" and is narrated by Kevin Spacey and includes interviews with Kevin Rose and Steve Wozniak. It was never released, until now, because of conflicts among the producers and crew, according to Threat Level.