Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon 573
An anonymous reader writes "Dateline NBC allegedly attempted to infiltrate the DefCon hackerfest with a producer using a hidden camera. The show hoped to tape hackers admitting to illegal activities, but DefCon got wind of the plot and displayed the would-be-mole's photo before every presentation. Dateline refused to deny the planned infiltration. 'All journalists covering DefCon sign an agreement upon registering for the conference that outlines the rules, but the DefCon organizers say the mole apparently registered as a regular attendee, thereby bypassing the legal agreement. Dateline NBC is best known for its controversial To Catch A Predator series, which uses hidden cameras to tape men who are allegedly seeking to have sex with minors they met online.'"
First clue (Score:0, Funny)
The real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
"Whoa, never seen you before. Ah, what the hell, you look trustworthy. But before I tell you the details of my pub with 4 TB of CP I need you to do something for me... First, I need to know what size hat you wear and if you have any food allergies."
Journalistic Standards (Score:5, Funny)
Aside from the fact that what Dateline does can only be called "news" in a very loose sense, isn't this the kind of BS we should be expecting from Fox News?
Or would they already be trumpeting how they got kicked out by the HACKERS ON STEROIDS?
That's clever (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
Note to the Muggles DO NOT TRY TO OUT TRICK A GROUP OF WIZARDS
this is darwin grade 2 guiness guys F[redacted] Brilliant!!
Now watch some NBC server will go wheels up "for no reason"
Re:Brilliant (Score:2, Funny)
Seriously, how do they expect to blend in with nerds, we can smell non-nerds a mile away. Sexual predators are dumb compulsion driven. Nerds are for the most part smarter and more aware, you may get one or two to say something stupid but that's a long way from catching a room full of 'hackers' plotting to bring down the Pentagon.
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
What really happened: (Score:4, Funny)
Reporter: And i would've gotten away with it, if it weren't for these meddling kids!
Re:Hmmmm (Score:4, Funny)
Fox News (Score:5, Funny)
I can see the NBC headline now... "EXPLICIT picture of Dateline journalist EXPOSED at hacker conference!"
Re:Despicable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brilliant (Score:5, Funny)
NBC executives: Their mothers tie their shoes. (Score:3, Funny)
Sore thumb (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Journalistic Standards (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nevada is a One-party Consent to Tape State (Score:5, Funny)
That's because it isn't.
Re:Have some fun with him (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:simple freedom of the press (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure the git and the bitkeeper people might have something to say about that.
Just think of what the ratings would have been... (Score:2, Funny)
I mean, how could the average Dateline viewer *not* want to see this? What viewer in their right mind wouldn't relish to chance to see a group of balding overweight hackers, garbed in black t-shirts (with obligitary armpit stains) working on laptops for _hours_ on end?! It's TV magic!
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Which makes you wonder (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmmm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Despicable (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dateline should stick to catching perverts (Score:3, Funny)
The problem for Dateline is their approach. Now if they had tempted these hackers with the possibility of accessing some super secret on-line achieve of hot tentacle porn, maybe they would have had more success?
Re:It's entrapment (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Brilliant (Score:3, Funny)
Ahh, so that is how they knew something fishy was going on!
Re:Brilliant (Score:2, Funny)
OK whoever did that, ha ha very funny. I take it back.
Now unencrypt my USB drive please.
Re:Just meet in a two party consent State (Score:3, Funny)
The reporter could simply record video, keep notes of what happens, then add some dramatic voices on top. For extra points they would show videos of exploding vans.
For Lulz, for course.
Re:Dateline NBC isnt news. Its just another TV sho (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Journalistic Standards (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Despicable (Score:5, Funny)
photo 1 [wired.com]
photo 2 [wired.com]
Note to NBC: if you're gonna send a mole to a hacker's convention, try to pick someone other than the fairly attractive 20-something slim blonde.
Maybe you should have sent in one of those predators from To Catch A Predator [youtube.com]? They all could pass for hackers.
Re:Media believes it is above the law ... (Score:2, Funny)
You're right, we should nationalise the media and create a government ministry to handle everything. The Ministry of Truth perhaps.
Re:The real question is... (Score:4, Funny)
Damn. You're right. I'm a donkey. I did about as much due diligence as the guys on To Catch A Predator
Re:Media believes it is above the law ... (Score:3, Funny)
The only speech rights granted to corporate oligarchs is the one that allows them to stand on a public sidewalk politely handing out pamphlets. MINUS their LLC protections.
They have no more right to astroturf the public spectrum with their intense greed than they have the right to paper all the streets and sidewalks with propaganda.
Re:Which makes you wonder (Score:4, Funny)
Along with all the other hot women, maybe? Obviously you've never BEEN to Defcon.
At Defcon there is a definite shortage of brilliant women. But there is DEFINITELY no shortage of what I call "scene sluts" who will pretty much have sex with anybody weighing in under 500 pounds, so long as you buy the drinks.
It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Ask anybody who's been there (which clearly doesn't include you)
Re:Despicable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmmmm (Score:2, Funny)
I'm going to vomit now.
Re:Despicable (Score:2, Funny)