Wikipedia attacked by Nazis

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Godwin's Law invoked on the first post -- discussion ended. :-)

Nick Farrell writes in The Inquirer:

[snip]

NAZIS ATTACKED the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia defacing the references to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died 
yesterday.

They added false information about Wiesenthal, claiming he was a homosexual who spent the 1970s looking for older black 
men.

Wiesenthal was a holocaust survivor who helped track down more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, died in his sleep at home 
in Vienna yesterday. He was 96.

The changes to the Wikipedia site were not up for long, but can still be seen as the page history is always backed up.

It is the second time that Wikipedia has been targeted by vandals with a cause.

After the death of the pope an anonymous user replaced the image of incoming pope Benedict XVI with the evil emperor 
from Star Wars. Given it is so easy to do, it is perhaps more surprising that it does not happen more often.

[snip]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26346

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.