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CIA caught fiddling with Wikipedia pages?
By Stevie Smith Aug 16, 2007, 15:26 GMT
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The only surprising thing about this allegation against the spooks at Langley is that the staff manning their disformation desk are not deploying more sophisticated anonymising (or 'proxifying') technology.
The CIA as will be well known to anyone monitoring the 'intelligence' game has proxies fronting for it on all sorts of discussion fora where the consensus being thrashed out might potentially seem likely to reflect badly on US political or economic interests. If this sounds obvious, it is because it is!!
Wikipedia reminds me of that joke about the encyclopedias in the Soviet Union with the loose leaf pages.
Hard to believe that Big Brother would act so infantile. Spy on...
I'm not surprised.
But the scanner does not pick up just proxy. It picks up DNS. And the Id number of the computer. So simply put. Easily traceable.
A proxy is not flawless. It only covers your IP but the network keeps your local IP in check.
So I am not surprised they got caught. There has always been scandals in politics. It did not surprise me that the Democratic party would do this. They are loosing foothold in the American Confidence very slowly.
Lemme see.... 'The CIA has commented to the BBC that it 'cannot confirm that the traffic ... came from agency computers.'
What?? With all that spooky equipment, they can't locate an IP????
Sound like time to either get better liars or get better spooks.
wow and I thought the CIA guys just surfed porn at work.
Too funny! I think they should leave it that way, along with the bigot and racist comments about Limbaugh.
It tells you a lot about the democrats, when they fear a conservative talk show that caters only to the same 15 million conservatives, and has had the same stuff on for...20?...years without one new rub.
These are the same folks who seem to think global warming will destroy humanity, that GW Bush is the antichrist, etc., etc.,
I don't have to hear Rush to know what will be on. I heard it 19 years ago and I am certain it will be on tomorrow.
That, of course does not make him wrong, or a bigot. After all, he's not the one screwing with anyones IT. He doesn't have to. He's Rush, feared by libnazis the world over.
Their motto should be 'we have everything to fear including fear itself'.
No wonder their mascot is a jackass.
Unfortunately, Wikipedia is constantly being defaced by evil indviduals with personal agendas.
I am currently working to prevent one individual who uses an Anonymizer to hide him/herself from adding a quote to the Erin Burnett page. The comment by Erin Burnett is clearly a slip of the tougue, yet the vandal keeps adding the quote without context in the hopes of defaming her.
And I hate to say it, but Wikipedia cannot prevent someone who masks their ip from hacking their site repeatedly.
So the new tool as cool as it sounds is absolutely worthless.
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