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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."
Written on what? This is cyberspace. A good server crash would reduce all those ones and zeros to bits and pieces.
The issue was resolved amicably, and the "investigator" found him by his IP address. So uh what's the problem?
I love how people who say there's no way to track someone down because of privacy laws and there's no accountability, yet these people don't understand the IP protocol, which allows for just that.
Everyone has an IP address, and IP addresses can be tracked down to ISPs. ISPs provide these connections, and although they're not liable, their users agree to avoid illegal activity (like defamation)... so again, what's the problem?
Of course the last piece of the puzzle is proving illegal activity, which can usually be done in logs.
FLR
a reliable source of information.
There is no such thing.