I was just watching TechTV and the hacker wanted for hacking Excite@Home, Yahoo, Blogger, and several other large companies, Adrian Lamo, called in and announced his intentions to turn himself in to authorities. Lamo (an unfortunate name for someone in this line of work) reportedly exposed only blatant security flaws, often using nothing but a normal web browser, never even hiding who he was or what he was doing from his supposed 'victims', this is the reason he has avoided prosecution till now. As a matter of fact, many of the companies Lamo hacked have thanked him for his efforts. Lamo says he wanted to wait to turn himself in while he consulted a lawyer and heard the charges against him.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/s...517538,00.html

NOTE: the call on the article linked is not the one i'm referring to, this article refers to the first call a few days ago, the call i'm talking about was just made today, live on the air.