Department of Homeland Security: Wikipedia Vandals?

[Lemur]

Sure looks like it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:63.162.143.21)

People chew over th evidence at Digg (http://www.digg.com/security/DHS_f_cking_up_Wikipedia) and Reddit (http://reddit.com/info/63oqe/comments/).

[Crazed Rabbit]

Huh. Looks like it was just a bunch of petty vandalism editing of various pages. No evidence of a vast government conspiracy to control information (unless you count adding 'These Theories are Retarded' under 9/11 conspiracy theories). Which I guess is good. But the lack of professionalism on display is concerning. I suspect the various edits were made by different DHS employees.

CR

[Louis VI the Fat]

Much ado about nothing. There is no concentrated effort to change articles relevant to the DHS. These Wiki entries were edited:
2006_Dodge_Viper_Hennessey_Venom
9/11 conspiracy theories
The_Wire_TV_series
Washington
The_Players_Band
Jason_Feinberg
John_Wayne
Keith_Green
Serena_Williams
Edge_and_Christian
Leland_Chapman
Lockheed_AC-130

Here's the edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=9/11_conspiracy_theories&diff=75765540&oldid=75749883) to 9/11 conspiracy theories. Edited part in bold.


Since the events of 9/11, a variety of conspiracy theories about them have emerged. These include speculation that individuals in the government of the United States knew of the impending attacks and failed to act on that knowledge, or that they actually planned the attacks. Conspiracy theorists have claimed that the collapse of the World Trade Center was caused by explosives. Some also contend that a commercial airliner did not crash into the Pentagon, and that United Airlines Flight 93 was shot down.

ALL OF THESE THEORIES ARE RETARDED!!! Some chap (chaps?) at the DHS has a bit too much spare time. And not enough common sense to not use tracable government computers from an already controversial agency.

[Lemur]

I was much more impressed when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture was making thousands of edits to the Gundam articles.

[CountArach]

This one (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Serena_Williams&diff=prev&oldid=156259841) is the best :tongue2:

But if you want to turn this into a conversation about Governments editting wikipedia, we had many problems with that just prior to our last election where the Government editted many wikipedia pages that were about things that a lot of people criticised (Our now previous) Government for.

[Oaty]

Was going to link "world of whorecraft" on wikipedia but it seems it somehow got removed.

Twas quite funny too

[Navaros]

It is impossible to "vandalize" something that has no credibility in the first place.

[Odin]

It is impossible to "vandalize" something that has no credibility in the first place.

He's right, i edit wiki's all the time. Some might call it vandalism, but the truth is rarely corrupting even when esposed by a crack pot like me. :thumbsup:

[ICantSpellDawg]

for some reason i was reading a wiki article on the false killer whale last week. It read "the False Killer Whale', also known as the 'Hangover Turd Whale' is a cetacean..."

I laughed. This week the aka is conspicuously absent from the article

Last week (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_Killer_Whale&oldid=179135478)

This week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Killer_Whale)

[mrdun]

Wikipedia is great... for contructive vandalism. Me and my mucka from my 6th form control around 20 or so accounts between us :dizzy2: We operated mainly on discussion pages leaving riddles and witty antidotes...what fun..fun, fun, fun!!