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."

Comments

Re:There are two "asses" in "assassin"

[1u3hr]

For the benifit of those three mods who deemed the parent a troll: It was a joke, pointing out that the word "assasination" [sic] was mispelled in the summary. OK?

My first first-post (except for one AC), and now sadly invisible...

Re:Cybersleuth, indeed

[tomstdenis]

There are a lot more people to hero-worship me thinks.

1. Name 5 kernel developers not including tree maintainers

2. Name 3 people who test GCC

3. Who wrote Nautilus?

4. Who wrote XMMS?

etc...

My point is he did a cool hack. Congrats. Stop playing him up like this all time champ for the OSS world. I'd say the people writing the tools [e.g. GCC] he used to compile it are also important.

Lot more work goes into making GCC capable for professional work than hacking decss together [keep in mind most incarnations of decss tools were CRAP for the longest while at first].

Tom