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Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses
cmholm writes "As reported in The Seattle Times, Nashville resident Brian Chase has publically admitted that he edited a Wikipedia entry for John Seigenthaler, making appear that Mr. Seigenthaler was involved in the assassination of JFK. Mr. Chase fessed up after a cyber-sleuth tracked down the business from which he had posted to Wikipedia."
Doesn't this sort of stuff happen all the time at Wikipedia?
How is this any different from "DVD Jon" or the earlier Mitnick bullshit?
Hackerextraordinaire indeed.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Sneak attack. Seoul is under communist control. Check out C N N
You mean a Wikipedia article may not *sarcastic gasp* be accurate?
What's this? Someone posted some intentionally false information about a public figure as a joke on Wikipedia!!! What's the world coming to? We must take Wikipedia offline at once and hold ISPs responsible for all their customers' actions. Next, let's sue the phone company everytime someone calls in a bomb threat.
Seigenthaler is such a stupid whiney bitch. The article didn't actually say he was known to have been involved in the assassinations, it just said that for a certain period, he was suspected of involvement. Chances are, that is factually correct, since everybody and their sister has been suspected in the Kennedy assasinations by someone. Anyone that would use such a vague reference with no sources for anything is a moron. You don't see the Whitehouse throwing a hissyfit everytime some dork replaces the content of the G.W. Bush article with "BUSH IS TEH GHEY!!!!111".
Why is it that so many American jews claim to be champions of free speech, but the moment someone says anything bad about them, they start calling for (selective) censorship.
If you can read this sig, you're too close.
Oh please! Give me a break, Mr. Brandt... what you did was nothing more than a traceroute along with a social engineering twist. And besides, if it wasn't for the fact that you didn't like your own entry on Wikipedia with such a flaming hatred for anyone who spoke against you, you would probably have tried to defend the hoaxer instead of tracking him down.
I'm sorry, Mr. Brandt. I am not impressed with your actions at all. I personally used to think of you as a privacy advocate; now with http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html and additionally this I think you no longer qualify as a privacy advocate. I think you're more like a shark who smells blood in the water.
Well, that makes some of your older comments entertaining.
"It's primarily Google's fault, according to http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/"
becomes
"It's primarily Google's fault, according to me."
et cetera...
I am no genius.
That much is readily apparent.