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Headlines : MediaLook Who's Editing Wikipedia
It’s a simple but effective idea. CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith says he was inspired by news last year that Congress members’ offices had been editing their own entries.
He subsequently created Wikipedia Scanner, which offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated. It cross-references the edits with publicly available IP ownership data.
[Posted By Beagle17]Republished from Wired
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.
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Wow. FanTAStic find. Yay Virgil.
QUOTHE VIRGIL
“Everything’s better if you do it on a huge scale, and automate it” [grin]
in this case?
A database of 34.4 million edits, performed by 2.6 million organizations or individuals ranging from the CIA to Microsoft to Congressional offices, now linked to the edits they or someone at their organization’s net address has made.
“One CIA entry deals with the details of lyrics sung in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode”
LOL
Slow day in Langley?
Proving beyond doubt that spooks are nerds too.
If a nerd is someone obsessed with getting every eensie weensie little detail correct, then Langley’s spooks should probably be working on details a little more complex than Buffy’s lyrics.
Like, their bottom line. But. I guess they have a strict policy about making sure that nobody knows what anyone else is doing.
There aren’t any lyrics in the Buffy theme song…ok, I deserve whatever’s coming…
They have to monitor Buffy lyrics in case some random code phrase is used
that will turn on or off their sleeper zombies.
Homework for Prof Rumplestiltzkin:
Try to use “duck in a noose” in an ordinary sentence.
Fox News Caught Editing Al Franken’s Wikipedia Entry
“They have to monitor Buffy lyrics in case some random code phrase is used
that will turn on or off their sleeper zombies.”
As I just said, there are no lyrics in the Buffy theme song. You have the things you’re passionate about: Chess and 911, most notably. And I have things I am passionate about: mainly the existence or lack thereof of lyrics in sci-fi and/or fantasy television programs. Goddamnit!
Only Manchurian candidates get to know the lyrics to Buffy. Its one of the privileges of trauma based mind control.
Athena, I must cede to your greater knowledge of Buffy issues. :-|
From microdot’s quote above, it did sound like a one time song rather than a theme.
As I recalled, the CIA requested of the early mkultra researchers that hypnotic activation keys be designed so that they could be delivered by phone.
Trying to locate that info again, I typed: ‘mkultra telephone programmimg’ into google.
There were 90,400 hits and a query if I’d meant ‘programming’.
Indeed I did, but removing the typo reduced the hit count to 23,100.
How mysterious!