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- OneManArmy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+196"DefCon staff lured her to a large hall telling her that the Spot the Fed contest was in session and that she could get a picture of an undercover federal agent at the contest. When she sat down, Jeff Moss, DefCon's founder, announced that they were changing the game. Instead of Spot the Fed, they were going to play Spot the Undercover Reporter and then announced, "And there's one in here right now." "
OWNED - drenader, on 10/10/2007, -0/+152Good thing they picked someone who would blend right in.
- miked123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+78Haha, talk about a den of wolves...
- vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -2/+65This is not a "reporter" this woman is a journalist. Reporters report facts...she is instead looking for digging up dirt to support her preconceived notion about security people.
Awesome payback. Kudos to the organizers for making her look like a fool! - MixedMessage, on 10/10/2007, -1/+59According to the wired blog (via Boingboing), the Defcon staff members learned of the reporter's plans through _THEIR_OWN_MOLE_ at Dateline: "DefCon says it was tipped off by their own mole at Dateline who sent them a pic of the undercover journalist who DefCon employees identified as producer Michelle Madigan."
When I read that, I had a sudden Fight Club quote flash through my mind:
Look.
The people you are after
are the people you depend on.
We cook your meals. We haul your trash.
*We connect your calls.*
We drive your ambulances.
*We guard you while you sleep.*
Do not f&*k with us.
Targeting dumb sexual deviants? Easy ratings.
Targeting a convention of verifiable geniuses and security experts? Just asking for humiliation. - cmiller1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+56Good riddance, there's no room at a respectable security conference for HER kind of 'investigative journalism'
- wildfire, on 10/10/2007, -1/+56Holy *****, the tooth-to-gum ratio is off the charts...
- funkypenquin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvmkxO5hoQ
- Computer_Kid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+54I can just see what type of story that they were going to do
"we are at defcon where hackers join to get your private information" all while showing generic typing at the keyboard footage - ineedtogetalife, on 10/10/2007, -1/+52OH snap here is her myspace.com page http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=8655518
"Get a Plate" you just got served NBC. - GreyICE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+48Yeah, seriously. Why would you go and try to break the security of a conference dedicated to security and breaking it? Its like a house cat wandering into a den of tigers and trying to catch one.
NBC should go back to IMing pedophiles, its all they're capable of. - jeremy151, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43The sad thing is, they'll probably still run the piece, and spin it into the story of an innocent reporter on an undercover story, ambushed by COMPUTER HACKERS.
"But the attacks didn't end there. In the days to follow, Michelle would come to discover an all-out assault on her online identity." - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39Well I mean she's only like the only girl there. Suspicious right there and then.
- RedCt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39Personally, I think it would be a bit more fun to mess around with her a bit. A bit of theater at Defcon, anyone?
- DeflatorMouse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38Instead of getting herself, her show and her company humilated at DefCon, she should do something more suited to her talents .... like do an undercover series on dentistry.
- screamthenrun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34unto.... the word is unto
- GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34Hi, my name is Michelle. My interests are travel, throwing theme parties, photography, exploring new neighborhoods, college football, yoga, shopping, and all things irish and being an all around media whore.
- snotrokit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30how soon until her myspace page gets owned. :)
- whatexcusenow, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30Wait till some hacker finds the hidden camera, that *****'ll be running Linux in no time.
- achoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27http://youtube.com/watch?v=nCvmkxO5hoQ
really shaky tho - ineedtogetalife, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27Great story!
"I am Chris Hanson with DATELINE NBC and we are doing a story on....." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27Here is the google cache of her myspace before private. (damn gotta love google and the internet)
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:KuJIobziKooJ:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendid%3D8655518+8655518+myspace&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a - godmode, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26hah! they were all closed down
- alexanderhazard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Plus the mild tan. Dead giveaway
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24Haha watch how many hackers go after her now because of this. Big mistake on her part!
- cepheuskb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Not too bright to try to social engineer some of the smartest tinkerers and social engineers on the planet.
- relaxeder, on 04/17/2009, -0/+22epic fail
- Kauzman01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22"You must feel like Lindsay Lohan Right now... well I dont know, Lindsay Lohan's pretty smart!"
- bluenullity, on 10/10/2007, -1/+22They should just setup security with hidden cameras to follow the reporters around town. I wonder what trouble a NY producer could get in LV!
- hyperfocal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Yeah, don't they have a 300lb reporter with a neck beard?
- ChuqAU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20And not to be outdone, she's on Facebook as well... http://northwestern.facebook.com/s.php?k=10080&id=507077142
- denkc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21@3:30 "this is for all those helpless predators." Hah.
She also says something along the lines of "they made fun of me and now they're taking pictures, I don't like it." - SiL3ncer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19DateLine has gone too far!
- Peepsalot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Who the hell put that tree in the hallway?
- jcaino, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17oh, this is SO dugg. and hilarity ensued.
- iluvdrbonner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17What happens at DefCon stays at DefCon.
- badtzmartin, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18Soda came out my nose on that one... Classic.
- GirthAgain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Would that be considered fraud by deception?
- denkc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15On the other hand, this would be the cruelest prank to play on someone. Sent them to defcon with a hidden camera and anonymously tip them off to her presence ... when does Ashton Kutcher come out?
- whitehatjack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Where is the video?
- achoi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Speaking of To Catch a Predator, what's the criteria NBC uses to find people to chat with? I wanna see them start something with Bloodninja
- Zer0Fade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Hot damn, home town Lake Forest... This chick's damn near in my back yard.
- KidVicious, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14"Reporters report facts"
Wow I thought that's what a journalist was supposed to be doing.
This woman is no journalist. - ChuqAU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13And LinkedIn completes the holy trinity. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/446/5a1
- cable22, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Michelle Madigan
(212) 664-7842
michelle.madigan@nbcuni.com
michellemadigan@yahoo.com - systemghost, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Haha, totally ***** busted. I love it.
- nusuni, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13She looks like a B****
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Her myspace just went private in the past few minutes, anyone get a screen cap?
- airwalkery2k, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I hope that was a joke referring to the recent incident where they went after that prosecutor who never showed up at the house after a few conversations, but went to the man's own home isntead causing the man to kill himself.
Otherwise, please. Don't make stuff up. - TSCheredar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12If anyone contacts this woman, ***PLEASE*** keep it civil. This may be impossible as it is a bunch of geeks who take their privacy freedoms very seriously. Still there's no excuse for not being polite, doesn't matter what she (and i'm sure several others involved) were planning to do.
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