I’m not going to rehash the whole story hear because it is everywhere right now but here is the quick synopsis:
A producer from NBC news show Dateline, Michelle Madigan, attempted to get an “inside look” at DefCon by registering as a “human” (regular attendant) and not as media. Needless to say, she was discovered.
She was then provided the opportunity to register as a media representative as many as four times which she repeatedly declined. It turned out that she had a hidden camera and was working as a media representative trying to catch hackers (the media’s definition) talking about their illegal exploits.
She was finally identified to the attendees and she then chose to make a hasty exit.
So, this leads me to my question for you this week:
Got more to say about this than just Yes or No? Put it in the comments for all to read!
Background Reading
- Defcon: Hacks, Lies, and Videotape - Newsfactor
- Undercover TV producer booted from DefCon - TechWorld
- Middle America, Meet The Hackers - Forbes
- DefCon’s Moss: Undercover Reporter Damages ‘Neutral Zone’ - Information Week
- You Got Pwn3d - CBS News
- Blonde ambition - InfoWorld
- Undercover ‘Dateline’ Reporter Outed, Flees from Defcon - PC Magazine
- Dateline Las Vegas: hackers whack a mole hack (and outed-FSJ) - ComputerWorld
- DEFCON 15: Dateline Tastes its Own Medicine - Network World
- Something uncomfortable about DEFCON’s treatment of Dateline NBC … - ZDNet
- All the rest
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One Response to “Human or Media?”
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John May Says:
August 7th, 2007 at 2:59 pmI know the idea was to get some covert ops intel, but once she was found out, which from what I understand was even before she arrived at the convention, she should have signed up for a press pass. I guess she thought nobody would recognize who she was.
