OT - But Interesting - Wikipedia Sleuth

[Scott C. Ripley]

silly anecdote:

a while back, i logged on to one of my servers and noticed

   Last Login: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.cia.com

i didn't recognize the address and it gave me a bit of a start... (until i
remembered i'd been down at my dad's and logged in remotely)

:-)

Scott



On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Paul King wrote:

>> Oh horror of horrors. Individuals and corporations are exercising their
>> rights to make edits to Wikipedia and as a result it's not very factual
>> anymore. Why is this author (and seemingly many others) so surprised?
>>
>> I've got to sat that opening an article with this line :" Golly, I would
>> have expected that this sofware engineer/genius would have been black,
>> that's what Hollywood and the Jews Media are always touting isn't it?"
>> makes me think that the author may have an agenda that has skewed his
>> thinking and his conclusions.
>>
>
> With the "CIA editing Wikipedia" headline, I think the author is attempting to
> be tongue-in-cheek by stringing together a few well-known paranoid conspiracy
> theories, with the implication that the CIA editing Wikipedia could be
> considered to be by some to be just as paranoid -- except, as the headline
> says, it really happened.
>
> Paul King
>
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