UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity 260
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BoxRec writes with this excerpt from The Daily Mail: "A mother trying to identify a blackmailer who posted 'sensitive' details about her child on Wikipedia has won the right to find out who edited her entry. In the first case of its kind, a High Court judge has ordered the online encyclopedia's parent company to disclose the IP address of one of its registered users."
Let me be the first to say... (Score:5, Funny)
Nothing.
Because I don't want you to know who I am.
I'm shocked and amazed. (Score:5, Funny)
Not by the court's order, but that the Daily Mail actually published a decent, non-sensationalistic article.
Re:Caught? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Somebody had to add it (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, you could have been the 1,000,000th person to post that reference in that thread and would have won a brand-new car!
Re:I'm shocked and amazed. (Score:5, Funny)
If you think that's weird, check out the comments - they're fairly sensible. I think they must have a problem with their server.
Re:Somebody had to add it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WARNING - DAILY FAIL (Score:4, Funny)
God knows why they're using a distorted aspect-ratio video screen cap for Mr Cable thou down the bottom.....
Re:Caught? (Score:4, Funny)
Heh, something tells me that Chinese proxies wouldn't work well for editing Wikipedia. :(
Sure they would. Just depends on the edit that you are making ;) I always use Chinese proxies when I edit this [wikipedia.org] article to reflect the truth that the events mentioned therein are nothing more than Western propaganda ;)
Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail (Score:2, Funny)
Removing the blackmailer gene from the gene pool?
Re:Whistle blowers don't involve people's children (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tor (Score:5, Funny)
Well, if it's in the UK then there are probably 4 or 5 different CCTV tapes of everyone using that access point.
Re:it's not whistleblowing, its blackmail (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, leave the US out of this.