Not enough journalists using TOR :-)

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/media/0,71562-0.html?tw=wn_index_4

Wired News has removed three articles from its website after an
internal investigation failed to confirm the authenticity of a source
used in the stories.

<snip>

In a phone conversation with Wired News editors, Chien had identified
Ash as a professor of aeronautical engineering at Old Dominion
University in Norfolk, Virginia. Reached by phone this week, Ash said
he is not a space historian and has never participated in interviews
with Chien. Ash is an aeronautical engineering professor at the
university and has been involved in numerous NASA projects.

<snip to the interesting part>

Chien's reporting came under scrutiny when he submitted a draft
article citing a different source, Ted Collins, along with contact
information for Collins, as required by Wired News ever since
questions arose last year over another reporter's sources.

An investigation traced the name and Hotmail account provided to a
Usenet posting praising Chien's work. Wired News senior editor Kevin
Poulsen then compared the IP address of the poster and Chien's
computer and discovered they matched. An e-mail sent to Wired News
from the Ted Collins account also originated with the same IP address.

Poulsen linked Chien's IP address to at least one other Hotmail
account, created under the name Robert Stevens, which Chien had
provided to Wired News as contact information for Ash. The name and
address were used in additional Usenet posts making positive comments
about Chien's work.

Chien has used Robert Stevens as a source in at least three articles
published in two newspapers, which we have contacted privately. In
each case he used a different description, variously calling him a
retired engineer, a NASA engineer and an amateur astronomer.

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-JP<who will use that trick on his resume ;-)>
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