LastPass are very good at deleting their security incidents https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15756044
Apologies - the references are now outdated and I’m too lazy to find them again
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#62My favourite would have to be Eli Lilly bullying some random American school.
http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/6209781691e7fdc225681c7848504...
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#63Why did Pfizer do all these edits on a musical? http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diffs/c1b9f1c2d5cc1361ccf28b0108bd...
Because people do non-work things on their work computers.
This is one of the reasons I think the statement "edits made by companies" is a bit too strong... these are edits made from company owned IPs, but we have no idea if these were made based on direction from the company leadership or just by employees doing non-work related things from work computers.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I've mentioned it also in my original blog post. What do you mean though by "paid dearly for it"? I was not aware of anything particular happening.
Maybe pertaining to persecution like this: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/12/11/virgil-griffith-s...
It's possible, but as much as I dislike what's happened to him I think it seems a bit far-fetched to see it as retribution for creating WikiScanner.
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#65This is really a hobby of mine. I will sometimes go through articles and see if I can find suspicious edits. It grew out from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840671
But now, I realized I can 10x this stupid hobby with ipinfo.io
You can get company name and VPN detection from IP address. I work for IPinfo, so not plugging the API service. Use the search box on the homepage to check individual IPs for free.
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#66In the conspiracy community, wikipedia articles relevant to conspiracy theories often have extremely revealing edits and have been known as a source of checking for coverup for a while. The truth, I've found, is often so shocking that many if not most people, would rather reject it (attack the messenger, bury head in sand, etc) than admit their worldview has been so wrong for so long. I've even seen sections in the e…
What do you mean by 'revealing edit'? Is that an edit that goes against a conspiracy theory? Do you have grounds for suspecting those edits originate on behalf of affiliated persons instead of someone trying to present a balanced viewpoint but whom you happen to disagree with?
I used to look only occasionally at edit sections for sensitive articles involving crimes by powerful players but stopped because I never spotted any suspicious changes.
(Also, if removing edits from page history on Wikipedia was actually common I don't believe no one in the editor community blew the whistle yet. Of course some people would claim such whistleblowers are tracked and eliminated by omnipresent evil illuminati before they go public... and at that point I can't take this line of argument seriously)
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#67This is really a hobby of mine. I will sometimes go through articles and see if I can find suspicious edits. It grew out from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840671 But now, I realized I can 10x this stupid hobby with ipinfo.io You can get company name and VPN detection from IP address. I work for IPinfo, so not plugging the API service. Use the search box on the homepage to check individual IPs f…
Posted this on our Slack. If OP needs a company database or something, I can ask my team. I heard that we collaborated with Wikipedia on a project like this before.
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#68One amusing edit: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/7d674d710c8d1328f0f74f6b351ff... IPs from the European Parliament editing out connections to Cambridge Analytica from Alex Phillips' (member of the European Parliament) page: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/diff/584f4588ec12334300a448f39ae4c...
My wife's best friend used to work for Wikipedia and said they had to block any edits made from the IP range belonging to the US capitol building. Maybe they need to just do this for all legislative offices of all countries. Not that it stops the same people from just making these edits from home or learning to use a VPN.
It seems that such blocks would mostly just reduce transparency.
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#69Of course, this only catches the relative "amateurs". Proper professionals change IP address before making their edits, or they register a "volunteer" account (this also prevents routine disclosure of the IP address, but still makes the IP address potentially discoverable by higher-ranking Wikipedia functionaries).
Yes, this is unfortunately a very big issue and one of the reasons I didn't develop it further.
Why are you posting it again then?
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#70The US Army has made six hundred contributions to a list of ethnic slurs: http://wikiwho.ailef.tech/page/11014515 They appear as “PEO STAMIS” here, which appears to be an IT group?
When I think about it, a lot of ethnic slurs that were introduced to me were in a context that was militarily adjacent.
I suppose that makes sense considering most conflicts involve groups who (accurately or not) wouldn't consider their enemies members of their own race.