See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
Wired News - 45 minutes ago
By John Borland 08.14.07 | 2:00 AM CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes ...

This is outing!

here is the site: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/

Tracking Wikipedia's Not-So-Neutral Editors
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - 13 minutes ago
When word spread last year that Congressional staff members were feverishly editing their bosses’ Wikipedia entries, Virgil Griffith asked himself a ...

Who's Editing Wikipedia?
Digital Download, NY - 1 hour ago
One of the biggest problems with Wikipedia is the ease at which partisan users can anonymously make changes to entries: If the article about Acme Inc ...

Wired reports on a new online database that lets users trace the anonymous people who edit Wikipedia entries. The free online encyclopedia relies on users to create and update its articles, meaning that it is subject to tampering by pranksters...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...-whos-edit.html

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.



http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/14/...-cia-a-campaign

Wired reports on a new online database that lets users trace the anonymous people who edit Wikipedia entries. The free online encyclopedia relies on users to create and update its articles, meaning that it is subject to tampering by pranksters...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...dit.html?csp=34

CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...ld,%20the%20CIA

The CIA really IS editing Wikipedia
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 12 minutes ago
By John Pospisil A new data-mining service is making it possible to check anonymous Wikipedia edits, confirming that yes, the US Government is editing ...

More scanner stuff. That seems to be in the news everywhere. Interesting title though. But like duh of course CIA is editing articles. This entry makes it sound rather plainer than proper research would suggest.

Outfoxed: Fox News Changes Wikipedia To Smear Rivals - Stephen Colbert, whose “Wikiality” has entered reality. There are a few news stories breaking about people editing Wikipedia - including the CIA, Diebold, and U.S. Congressional Offices.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...0708/S00216.htm

The actual article is here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00209.htm

Stupid Scoop feed only linked to the main page, which changes every so often.

It looks like one of Wikipedia Review's analyses of edits.

Perhaps that's why we've gotten more people viewing lately.

CIA caught rewriting Wikipedia biographies
Daily Mail, UK - 11 minutes ago
The CIA has been re-writing the Wikipedia biographies of two former US presidents, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The Wikipedia Scanner, which trawls ...

CIA and Labour party 'edit' Wikipedia entries
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 37 minutes ago
By Paul Willis The CIA and the Labour party have been caught editing their own entries on the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, in an apparent bid to improve ...

The CIA is one of many organisations and firms that are revealed by a web tool to edit Wikipedia entries

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...ogy/6947532.stm

A web tool that reveals the identity of organisations and firms that edit Wikipedia pages is launched.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...ia%20edits'

An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries.

Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's computers made edits to the page of Iran's president.



http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/...-cia-page-edits

THE CIA has been re-writing the Wikipedia biographies of two former US presidents, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The Wikipedia Scanner, which trawls through the editing of entries, also discovered changes made to the background of the organisation...

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...m?id=1294142007

You know what I find more upsetting than the fact that the CIA is editing Nixon and Reagan's bios?

The fact that the guys who are supposed to be intelligence gathering to protect my country aren't smart enough to know that if they make a login like "LittleBoPeep", that they won't be id'd as CIA.
I hope they are smarter when they are tracking terrorists. Because their Wikipedia comportment makes me think they would wear large CIA t-shirts on assignment in Pakistan.

On the other hand, I find it bothersome that the people charged with intelligence gathering to protect my country are wasting time editing Nixon or Reagan's bio, either during working hours, or god forbid, as a work assignment. Osama Bin Laden is alive and well, eating chicken in someone's house in Peshwar, but Reagan's bio is safe.

Priorities all messed up.

They could at least be editing Arabic Wikipedia. Oh wait, they can't speak Arabic. Notice that the scroll bar is on the left side.

NSA uses TOR because they are 1337.

Program shows CIA behind Wikipedia entries
ABC Online, Australia - 13 minutes ago
By Michael Edwards The world according to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is in a constant state of update, as tens of thousands of contributors work to ...

The world according to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is in a constant state of update, as tens of thousands of contributors work to ensure the site's content is correct.

Article: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc.../16/2007049.htm

My point still stands that all they need to do is create usernames? No? Or are the TOR links hardblocked?

Also - if CIA uses TOR, and TOR is under complete block would not all the CIA edits be blocked?

Look, everybody knows the CIA is just a Punch-&-Judy, Dog-&-Pony, Sockpinocchio Divertimento of the NSA. It's their job to get caught doing silly putty stuff.

AlertDivert The Media !!!

Jonny

"We are the CIA. We are above the TOR"

CIAO, BABY !!!

Jonny

Has Jimbo made a public statement about this yet? One of the early articles I think it said he declined to comment until he learned more.

Unusual for Jimbo...

Well, he can't always claim to be in the wilds of India, with a bad internet connection (ref: Essjay debacle). Incidentally, if Jimbo was in India, he was probably in Bangalore, or Delhi, where the internet connections are better than parts of the USA. But never mind.

The NSA has technology so advanced that we can only guess at it. The TOR thing was meant as a joke. They have machines so fast that depending on your relative perspective the network packets might arrive before they are sent. I think they could manage to avoid IP blocks or even detection.

So great is lure of their technology that the NSA can attract the very best people almost regardless of any political or ethical reservations. This creates a powerful dynamic in their favor. I'm pretty sure many devs seek software security that is good enough to frustrate exploits except NSA stuff.

Hint: At least one comment in this post is also intended as a joke.