| It's a big fat blockquote because, well, some stories just write themselves.
Virgil Griffith, a good friend and fellow hacker, reminds us today that anonymity on the internet does not really exist. With his newly released search tool Wikiscanner, you can search an index of 35 million Wikipedia edits by IP, allowing you to find edits coming from within organizations like the CIA or the EFF (bonus if you can find something about Kevin Bankston smoking).
Finding out that someone from the Fox News network changed this:
The lawsuit focused a great deal of media attention upon Franken's book and greatly enhanced its sales. Reflecting later on the lawsuit during an interview on the [[National Public Radio]] program ''[[Fresh Air]]'' on [[September 3]], [[2003]], Franken said that Fox's case against him was "literally laughed out of court" and that "wholly (holy) without merit" is a good characterization of Fox News itself.
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The lawsuit focused a great deal of media attention upon Franken's book and greatly enhanced its sales. Reflecting later on the lawsuit during an interview on the liberal [[National Public Radio]] program ''[[Fresh Air]]'' on [[September 3]], [[2003]], Franken said that Fox's case against him was the best thing to happen to his book sales.
is quite amusing.
Be forewarned, all ye who think you can get away with snide little alterations to history: open-source tools will burn and salt your fields every time. Lest we forget that today is the anniversary of Jim Webb's campaign posting the now-infamous "Macaca moment", we should always be on our guard about these things.
No doubt some talking head on Fox News will have a very serious discussion involving very serious people some time soon in which they decry the populace's use of Wikipedia for dependable information, to cover the fact that Fox News itself has been caught making that resource less dependable.
It's the Fox News way. |
