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Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon
An anonymous reader writes "Dateline NBC allegedly attempted to infiltrate the DefCon hackerfest with a producer using a hidden camera. The show hoped to tape hackers admitting to illegal activities, but DefCon got wind of the plot and displayed the would-be-mole's photo before every presentation. Dateline refused to deny the planned infiltration. 'All journalists covering DefCon sign an agreement upon registering for the conference that outlines the rules, but the DefCon organizers say the mole apparently registered as a regular attendee, thereby bypassing the legal agreement. Dateline NBC is best known for its controversial To Catch A Predator series, which uses hidden cameras to tape men who are allegedly seeking to have sex with minors they met online.'"
Should have been that she's a woman
... did he bring the condoms and beer? In the producer's defense, I'm sure he just wanted to be friends with the hackers and talk with them, nothing more.
We want some answers and all that we get
Some kind of shit about a terrorist threat
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Seriously, I think merely being outed is probably the best that this guy could have hoped for. Woulda rocked if they'd fucked around with him instead.
"Whoa, never seen you before. Ah, what the hell, you look trustworthy. But before I tell you the details of my pub with 4 TB of CP I need you to do something for me... First, I need to know what size hat you wear and if you have any food allergies."
Aside from the fact that what Dateline does can only be called "news" in a very loose sense, isn't this the kind of BS we should be expecting from Fox News?
Or would they already be trumpeting how they got kicked out by the HACKERS ON STEROIDS?
and next year Defcon will mod its civilian signup to close this loophole.
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Now watch some NBC server will go wheels up "for no reason"
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I guess they'll be adding "spot the undercover journalist" game to go along with the traditional "spot the fed" game.
Seriously, how do they expect to blend in with nerds, we can smell non-nerds a mile away. Sexual predators are dumb compulsion driven. Nerds are for the most part smarter and more aware, you may get one or two to say something stupid but that's a long way from catching a room full of 'hackers' plotting to bring down the Pentagon.
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Read the story? You must be new here.
Hacker: Look! Behind that mask hides a reporter from Dateline NBC!
Reporter: And i would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for these meddling kids!
Wouldn't it be funny if she were outed as the original tubgirl? Ultimate payback for nosing around, eh?
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Their first tipoff was her "Windows Vista" t-shirt.
I can see the NBC headline now... "EXPLICIT picture of Dateline journalist EXPOSED at hacker conference!"
Ethical? Journalist? I'm not sure I follow.
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Ah, but NBC doesn't have to worry about hackers out for retaliation. What with their history of partnership with Microsoft (MSNBC) they must have the most secure computer systems on Earth.
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Thinking that she would not be detected certainly puts an upper limit on the intelligence of NBC executives.
I want to know who the genius that decided to send a blue-eyed blonde haired female to a computer hacking event "undercover" was.
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Him? you might want to actually read the article next time...
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I'm sure the git and the bitkeeper people might have something to say about that.
...had they pulled this off.
I mean, how could the average Dateline viewer *not* want to see this? What viewer in their right mind wouldn't relish to chance to see a group of balding overweight hackers, garbed in black t-shirts (with obligitary armpit stains) working on laptops for _hours_ on end?! It's TV magic!
It would be pretty funny if they didn't find Dateline's other undercover reporter.
Well at least when she was talking to geeks they were always looking at the camera (if they put it where I guess they did).
Cute? She looks like the lost Kerry sister.
Yes, but the recordings STAY in Vegas.
The problem for Dateline is their approach. Now if they had tempted these hackers with the possibility of accessing some super secret on-line achieve of hot tentacle porn, maybe they would have had more success?
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> Way to read the story. Your "him" is a "her".
Ahh, so that is how they knew something fishy was going on!
> the layman doesn't think they have magical powers
OK whoever did that, ha ha very funny. I take it back.
Now unencrypt my USB drive please.
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Defcon is actually organised in Nevada, which is a two party state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_l aws#Two_party_consent_states
The reporter could simply record video, keep notes of what happens, then add some dramatic voices on top. For extra points they would show videos of exploding vans.
For Lulz, for course.
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Where is BLOODNINJA when you need him?? That would be thoroughly entertaining. Too bad DATELINE would never air that. Where do these underage cybersex channel chats take place anyways? I wonder why nobody's found them and ratted them out.
here's real photos of the mole
photo 1
photo 2
Note to NBC: if you're gonna send a mole to a hacker's convention, try to pick someone other than the fairly attractive 20-something slim blonde.
Maybe you should have sent in one of those predators from To Catch A Predator? They all could pass for hackers.
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False, they are the price you pay for a profit centered media. Back when the news was "free" you had reporters like Edward R. Murrow and the original Bernstein and Woodward that you so aptly mentioned. These journalists would report the news, and programs like Green Acres and Leave It to Beaver would make the money. Now conglomerates like ClearChannel, Viacom, Fox, and GE see the 30 minute evening news as underused advertising space. They sell out news time to "partners" (read company that stands to gain from you listening to this "article").
You're right, we should nationalise the media and create a government ministry to handle everything. The Ministry of Truth perhaps.
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The only speech rights granted to corporate oligarchs is the one that allows them to stand on a public sidewalk politely handing out pamphlets. MINUS their LLC protections.
They have no more right to astroturf the public spectrum with their intense greed than they have the right to paper all the streets and sidewalks with propaganda.
Along with all the other hot women, maybe? Obviously you've never BEEN to Defcon.
At Defcon there is a definite shortage of brilliant women. But there is DEFINITELY no shortage of what I call "scene sluts" who will pretty much have sex with anybody weighing in under 500 pounds, so long as you buy the drinks.
It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Ask anybody who's been there (which clearly doesn't include you)
Me either, but now I'm going to the next one!Much smaller, and a bit rounder, also brown.
I just Googled tubgirl for the first time... OMFG. Thanks... for... that.
I'm going to vomit now.
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