Who's Editing Wikipedia? Diebold, the CIA, Polictical Campaigns, etc.

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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This shouldn't come as shock to anyone, but...

Via Wired News.

[snip]

On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs
from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire
section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes
typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the
contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.

In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the
corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. A
new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia
entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts
comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which
until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific
allegations.

[snip]

More fun here:
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker

- - ferg

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