Vernon Kay denies death rumors
Such an awful story in so many ways.
According to ITN/MSN News/Yahoo, people who edit Wikipedia pages are "Hackers".
The Buckinghamshire advertiser has an even worse write-up of the same crap.
I'm astonished any journalist out there doesn't know how Wikipedia works. Anyone can edit with a single click. This doth not a "Hacker" make. Pathetic. Massive fail ITN and everyone who posted the story or got their pet gibbon to mash out an ignorant re-write.
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Hacker tries to kill Vernon Kay, Wikipedia's security shattered, ITN dies
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
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You have to wonder how close to Vernon Kay these "friends" are, if they have to use wikipedia as a way of finding out about him.
Times don't change all that much - remember Mark Twain and the news wire cock up: "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"?
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