Author Of Fake Wikipedia Bio Admits 'Joke'

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John Seigenthaler

Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2005
The author of a fake biography posted on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has come forward and acknowledged he did it as a practical joke that went "horribly wrong," a newspaper report said.

The Tennessean daily of Nashville, Tennessee, identified the author as Brian Chase, 38, an operations manager for a delivery company.

The report said Chase admitted to creating a biography of journalist John Seigenthaler that falsely identified him as a possible suspect in the assassinations of president John Kennedy and his brother Robert.

Chase was quoted in the newspaper Sunday as saying he posted the false information to play a trick on his co-worker and did not know Wikipedia was used as a serious reference tool. He sought out Siegenthaler to apologize.

"I knew from the news that Mr. Seigenthaler was looking for who did it, and I did it so I needed to let him know in particular that it wasn't anyone out to get him, that it was done as a joke that went horribly, horribly wrong," said Chase.

"I'm very sorry that I wronged the man. He's a great guy. He's really a champion for freedom of speech, and to think that I used the thing that he champions, in a way that made him look bad and hurt him, I'm really sorry I did that."

Source: Agence France-Presse

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Hackers Shift Focus To Networks With Windows Fully Patched Up

Chicago (UPI) Nov 23, 2005
Hackers are now probing a new target - network routers - as they seek to wreak havoc on corporate computing networks and evade the extensive security software that has been deployed on PCs and Web servers, experts tell United Press International's The Web.

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