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Who's Editing Wikipedia? Diebold, the CIA...

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Valmort
Posted by Valmort 1 year 1 month ago; via wired.com/politics/online...

On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits. In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself.

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