August 17, 2007

• Wiki Scanner.

  Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Scanner

  The CIA has been accused of editing entries on the interactive encyclopedia Wikipedia.  http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22259259-2,00.html

  “On the profile of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool
  indicates a worker on the CIA network reportedly added “Wahhhhhh!”
  before a section on the leader’s plans for his presidency.”

  LOL

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