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Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits
rheotaxis writes "A circuit judge in Arkansas will not order the state to reveal where its computers were used to edit Wikipedia articles about former governor Mike Huckabee while he was running for President. Two Associated Press journalists used WikiScanner to track the edits to IP addresses used by the state. Writer Jon Gambrell and News Editor Kelly P. Kissel filed a suit in October 2007 asking the state to reveal which state offices used the IP addresses, because state rules don't allow using computer resources for political purposes. The director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Claire Bailey, claimed in court that releasing this information would allow hackers to target these state offices."
Well Obama supporters not only used government resources to find "Joe the plumber", they did so
-> illegaly (violating privacy)
-> on multiple locations
-> multiple times
And news organisations accepted and reported the stolen information.
Politics suck. Obamatrons and Huckabots alike.
Besides even internal wikipedia pages (why don't you check the page about wikipedia's "honorable" founder) are fucked up by politics and threats. The amount of people getting banned for saying something bad about wikipedia itself is over a hundred now.
People should remember what wikipedia gives them : the opinion of the loudest minority. The politically correct "improved truth". Nothing more. Nothing else.
Sort of like Soviet news sources.
I just linked to just a few demonstrations of Huckabee's corruption, and there's plenty more. Like how he got the "gifts to the governor" laws revised while in office so he could keep all the "gifts" given him while governor, rather than leaving them to the next governor as had been the case for all his predecessors. That's bribery. Then there's the rapist/murderer he freed who then raped and killed again, evidently because the rapist was jailed for killing a cousin of Bill Clinton's. And on and on.
Sure, Huckabee's predecessor Turner was corrupt. That doesn't excuse Huckabee from being corrupt. There's corruption all over Huckabee's career, including the covert Wikipedia propagandizing we're discussing in this Slashdot story.
Yeah, you're "just saying". Just saying stuff you're making up, and not even bothering to back up - because you can't. Whereas I'm just linking to evidence and connecting the dots with simple logic. Maybe "just saying" passes for political reasoning in Arkansas, but not with me.
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Its funny, though, how no one ever open sources their password. Everyone knows that weak passwords "can more easily be spotted and fixed when they are in the open."
... and that's when the C.H.U.D.'s came at me.
Obama's campaigns don't have access to Ohio government resources like some in
So what exactly would you call access to the state's driving license database for critics of their campaign ?
Ebay must be truly grand these days ...