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Please read the article properly before commenting - It helps you to stop jumping to wild, crazy conclusions It wasn't the DailyBeast conducting the investigat

• SlowRobotAhead 9y ago
  Tracked to a specific office in their HQ... by an external IP address... lol, ok.
  • EarthMephit 9y ago
    You are not as anonymous as you think when you are online - An IP address can easily identify a particular office in a government building There are many, many cases where a journalist has tracked down specific wikipedia edits to a particular office or intranet in a government building all from their IP address You can find a ton of stories with a quick google search: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-wikipedia-edit-scandal-grows-beyond-hillsborough-as-more-changes-emerge-9291988.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/government-w... https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/investigation-into-offensive-wikipedia-edits-made-by-public-servants-staffers-20161026-gsassd.html https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/investigation-into-o...
    • tomclive 9y ago
      Yep. I agree - it's pretty easy to slip up and public IPs are fairly easy to monitor. It reminds me of this project https://github.com/edsu/anon https://github.com/edsu/anon which "lets you tweet about anonymous Wikipedia edits from particular IP address ranges" You can see it working at Congress Edits - https://twitter.com/congressedits https://twitter.com/congressedits
      • SlowRobotAhead 9y ago
        >Yep. I agree - it's pretty easy to slip up and public IPs are fairly easy to monitor. Public IPs are NOT easy to monitor correctly when A. It's supposedly Russian Intelligence HQ B. They are claiming they can identify the specific office it came from