• US Senate IP address edits Snowden's Wikipedia article
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/tv-5.jpg[/img] [url]http://boingboing.net/2013/08/06/us-senate-ip-address-linked-to.html[/url] [quote]An anonymous person changed Edward Snowden's Wikipedia entry so that it called him "an American traitor" rather than "an American dissident." The editor's IP address is from a block assigned to the US Senate.[/quote] Snowden is fucked now
Heh, I wonder which senator did it. I'd like to give them a paper hat and a "you tried" malformed gold star.
oh no not his wikipedia article
Fuck! Senate's learning how to "hack!"
Saw this on /g/ a couple of days ago and thought it was a troll thread, checked it out and it was actually real Here's to hoping it was just a random guy at work fooling around and not an actual senator being a dick [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/rainbow.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;41735184]Heh, I wonder which senator did it. I'd like to give them a paper hat and a "you tried" malformed gold star.[/QUOTE] You do realize hundreds of people work in Senate offices, right? Just because an IP address belongs to the Senate doesn't mean a senator actually did it. [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] Besides, it's an accurate edit anyway. Snowden is a traitor; no idea why we're using the phrase "dissident."
They changed it to say it is debated what he is considered. [quote=Wikipedia]Snowden's leaks have been a subject of great controversy. Some have referred to Snowden as a hero, whistleblower or even a dissident,[9] while others have described him as a traitor.[/quote]
It's been changed.
We traced the edit! It's coming from inside the senate!
"HES A MEAN POOPY HEAD AND I DONT WANT YOU TO SIDE WIF HIM :C"
Some intern's gonna get shit.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41735252]Fuck! Senate's learning how to "hack!"[/QUOTE] [I]pictured: US senator[/I] [IMG]http://blogs-images.forbes.com/moneywisewomen/files/2012/06/computer-hacker-300x217.jpg[/IMG]
Look at their [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/156.33.241.5"]edit history[/url].
probably just an aid or intern. not a senator.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;41735331]You do realize hundreds of people work in Senate offices, right? Just because an IP address belongs to the Senate doesn't mean a senator actually did it. [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] Besides, it's an accurate edit anyway. Snowden is a traitor; no idea why we're using the phrase "dissident."[/QUOTE]Shhhh, don't ruin the joke please :c
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;41735331]You do realize hundreds of people work in Senate offices, right? Just because an IP address belongs to the Senate doesn't mean a senator actually did it. [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] Besides, it's an accurate edit anyway. Snowden is a traitor; no idea why we're using the phrase "dissident."[/QUOTE] He's just as much of a traitor as you are a quality poster. AKA he's a national hero, and you should stop posting. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Rude" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;41735331]You do realize hundreds of people work in Senate offices, right? Just because an IP address belongs to the Senate doesn't mean a senator actually did it. [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] Besides, it's an accurate edit anyway. Snowden is a traitor; no idea why we're using the phrase "dissident."[/QUOTE] Traitor is a negatively charged word, something that wikipedia probably wants to avoid.
[QUOTE=Van-man;41737064]He's just as much of a traitor as you are a quality poster. AKA he's a national hero, and you should stop posting.[/QUOTE] "i hate my parents!! fuck society!" although i have no idea what is going on with this whole thing anyway, it's good that he uncovered the PRISM scheme and that he's brave enough to stand against the most powerful nation (after us, the glorious UK), but seriously it's getting old for me now, i just couldn't care less anymore, i'm just sick of seeing "wow hero" whenever his name is mentioned
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;41735331]You do realize hundreds of people work in Senate offices, right? Just because an IP address belongs to the Senate doesn't mean a senator actually did it. [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] Besides, it's an accurate edit anyway. Snowden is a traitor; no idea why we're using the phrase "dissident."[/QUOTE] simply saying he is a traitor is hardly an objective description of the situation encyclopaedias are supposed to be objective [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Jacknife;41737215]"i hate my parents!! fuck society!"[/QUOTE] i don't understand, are you saying that objecting to being secretly spied on for no good reason by a branch of the government in a massive spying scheme that other parts of the government don't even know about/have been lied to about is only reserved for angsty teenagers?
[QUOTE=Jacknife;41737215]"i hate my parents!! fuck society!" although i have no idea what is going on with this whole thing anyway, it's good that he uncovered the PRISM scheme and that he's brave enough to stand against the most powerful nation (after us, the glorious UK), but seriously it's getting old for me now, i just couldn't care less anymore, i'm just sick of seeing "wow hero" whenever his name is mentioned[/QUOTE] "holy fuck i'm so cynical about everything, i'll prove all of these idiots wrong"
That sure showed snowden!
"snowdn is a faget who batrayed the US OF A becuz he suks comie dix[²²]" - SntrPlaya55
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;41737246]simply saying he is a traitor is hardly an objective description of the situation encyclopaedias are supposed to be objective [editline]6th August 2013[/editline] i don't understand, are you saying that objecting to being secretly spied on for no good reason by a branch of the government in a massive spying scheme that other parts of the government don't even know about/have been lied to about is only reserved for angsty teenagers?[/QUOTE] traitor is such a debatable term in a situation where someone leaks information about the government of that country for the sake of that country's people
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;41739733]traitor is such a debatable term in a situation where someone leaks information about the government of that country for the sake of that country's people[/QUOTE] additionally the word traitor by itself without context is pretty meaningless in an encyclopaedic article he may be a traitor according to some people in the US government, but wikipedia is supposed to speak for a lot more people than the ones who make up the US government, which is why the "according to such and such" part can't just be left out
[QUOTE=Protocol7;41735252]Fuck! Senate's learning how to "hack!"[/QUOTE] Or worst! They'll delete System 32 with cmd prompt!
[quote]Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former computer infrastructure specialist who worked for the CIA and the NSA and leaked details of several top-secret United States and British government mass surveillance programs to the press[/quote] seems its all normal again, if that pig edit's the article again, we should call Snowden, A Hero in the article
It'd be funny if we saw a Russian government IP change the traitor to "hero".
shit the senate is gonna hack me by putting his ms dos virus on my pc to open loads of notepads at once.
[QUOTE=Medevilae;41735227]Wasn't necessarily a Senator just because it was a Senate IP[/QUOTE] I would assume it's just some staffer, no member of the Senate knows how to edit a Wikipedia article.
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;41742057]Or worst! They'll delete System 32 with cmd prompt![/QUOTE] I bet they just drop the folder in the trashcan
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