Newsgroup: it.cultura.militare
Titolo: Wikipedia e la CIA

Interessante.
Il Vaticano e la CIA editano le pagine di Wikipedia.
Alla faccia della "fonte primaria" di barooniana memoria.
  Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'
By Jonathan Fildes
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations
that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in
editing entries.
Wikipedia Scanner allegedly shows that workers on the agency's
computers made edits to the page of Iran's President.
It also purportedly shows that the Vatican has edited entries about
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
The tool, developed by US researchers, trawls a list of 5.3m edits and
matches them to the net address of the editor.
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia that can be created and
edited by anyone.
Most of the edits detected by the scanner correct spelling mistakes or
factual inaccuracies in profiles. However, others have been used to
remove potentially damaging material or to deface sites.
Mistaken identity
On the profile of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the tool indicates that a
worker on the CIA network reportedly added the exclamation "Wahhhhhh!"
before a section on the leader's plans for his presidency.
A warning on the profile of the anonymous editor reads: "You have
recently vandalised a Wikipedia article, and you are now being asked
to stop this type of behaviour."
Other changes that have been made are more innocuous, and include
tweaks to the profile of former CIA chief Porter Goss and celebrities
such as Oprah Winfrey.
When asked whether it could confirm whether the changes had been made
by a person using a CIA computer, a spokesperson responded: "I cannot
confirm that the traffic you cite came from agency computers.
"I'd like in any case to underscore a far larger and more significant
point that no one should doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission
in protecting the United States, and the focus of this agency is
there, on that decisive work."
Radio change
The site also indicates that a computer owned by the US Democratic
Party was used to make changes to the site of right-wing talk show
host Rush Limbaugh.
The changes brand Mr Limbaugh as "idiotic," a "racist", and a "bigot".
An entry about his audience now reads: "Most of them are legally
retarded."
	We really value transparency and the scanner really takes this to
another level
Wikipedia spokesperson
The IP address is registered in the name of the Democratic National
Headquarters.
A spokesperson for the Democratic Party said that the changes had not
been made on its computers. Instead, they said that the "IP address is
the same as the DCCC".
The DCCC, or Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is the
"official campaign arm of the Democrats" in the House of
Representatives and share a building with the party.
"We don't condone these sorts of activities and we take very
precaution to ensure that our network is used in a responsible
manner," Doug Thornell of the DCCC told the BBC News website.
Mr Thornell pointed out that the edit had been made "close to two
years ago" and it was "impossible to know" who had done it.
Voting issue
The site also indicates that Vatican computers were used to remove
content from a page about the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.
The edit removed links to newspaper stories written in 2006 that
alleged that Adams's finger prints and hand prints were found on a car
used during a double murder in 1971.
The section, titled "Fresh murder question raised" is no longer
available through the online encyclopaedia.
Wikipedia Scanner also points the finger at commercial organisations
that have modified entries about the pages.
One in particular is Diebold, the company that supplied electronic
voting machines for the controversial US election in 2000.
In October 2005, a person using a Diebold computer removed paragraphs
about Walden O'Dell, chief executive of the company, which revealed
that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush.
A month later, other paragraphs and links to stories about the alleged
rigging of the 2000 election were also removed.
The paragraphs and links have since been reinstated.
Diebold officials have not responded to requests by the BBC for
information about the changes.
Web history
The Wikipedia Scanner results are not the first time that people have
been uncovered editing their own Wikipedia entries.
	Wikipedia Scanner may prevent an organisation or individuals from
editing articles that they're really not supposed to
Wikipedia spokesperson
Earlier this year, Microsoft was revealed to have offered money to
experts to trawl through entries about the company and its products to
make corrections.
Staff at the US Congress have also previously been exposed for editing
and removing sensitive information about politicians.
An inquiry was launched after staff for Democratic representative
Marty Meehan admitted polishing his biography
The new tool was built by Virgil Griffith of the California Institute
of Technology.
It exploits the open nature of Wikipedia, which already collects the
net address or username of editors and tracks all changes to a page.
The information can be accessed in the "history" tab at the top of a
Wikipedia page.
By merging this information with a database of IP address owners,
Wikipedia Scanner is able to put a name to the organisation and firms
from which edits are made.
The scanner cannot identify the individuals editing articles, admits
Mr Griffith.
"Technically, we don't know whether it came from an agent of that
company, however, we do know that edit came from someone with access
to their network," he wrote on the Wikipedia Scanner site.
A spokesperson for Wikipedia said the tool helped prevent conflicts of
interest.
"We really value transparency and the scanner really takes this to
another level," they said.
"Wikipedia Scanner may prevent an organisation or individuals from
editing articles that they're really not supposed to."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/6947532.stm
-- 
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, 
stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson

 Alla faccia della "fonte primaria" di barooniana memoria.
Beh, fonte primaria, dipende per cosa: per informarsi un po' su qualcosa
di cui non si sa nulla, puo' andare piu' che bene, c'e' anche una
discreta bibliografica per approfondire; e di sfondoni e' dimostrato che
poi non se ne trovano molti, non di piu' che in altre enciclopedie.
Quanto poi a "colui che posta per rendersi ridicolo" (mai lo nominero!),
beh lui, " E' " un idiota, indipendentementa da quel che cita...
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La Realta'
e l'idea che te ne sei fatta quante volte coincidono?

 Il Vaticano e la CIA editano le pagine di Wikipedia.
.....
La cosa non deve stupire,
 di fatto Wikipedia costituisce uno strumento d'informazione importante,
 cercaranno di portare acqua al loro mulino.
Anche questa è democrazia.
Quello che mi infastidisce è che la cosa venga fatta in incognito,
 ma questo è una caratteristica (e un problema) di Wikipedia,
 dove chi scrive, modifica o cancella può essere anonimo.
Ritengo che anche questa news si sorvregliata da organi governativi,
  e mi stupirebbe se così non fosse.
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che ti sei preso sui denti ti servirà

 che ti sei preso sui denti ti servirà
Ciao baroon, la farmacia dell'ospedale è ancora chiusa ed hai finito la 
scorta di litio?
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.......??
Perchè ti sei "inquetato"?
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  dove chi scrive, modifica o cancella può essere anonimo.
per cui vedere usare wikipedia come unica fonte al pari di uno Storico
che si firma nome e cognome fa (e deve fare) un po' rabbrividire.

.sergio. ha scritto:
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Per una volta concordo.
/me controlla se piovono gatti
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 /me controlla se piovono gatti
macchè gatti, forse hai un ritorno di QI ;)

 che si firma nome e cognome fa (e deve fare) un po' rabbrividire.
una volta tanto ti quoto
e ricordo quando "qualcuno", forse annebbiato dai fumi di un'enobomba, 
citava come fonte addirittura il TGCOM ;)