gHacks technology news » halo 3 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Sony caught editing Halo 3 Wikipedia entry http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/10/sony-caught-editing-halo-3-wikipedia-entry/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/10/sony-caught-editing-halo-3-wikipedia-entry/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:44:39 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/10/sony-caught-editing-halo-3-wikipedia-entry/ Oh Sony, when will you learn that manipulating the public will not be taken lightly when it becomes public. This time, someone from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s studios in Liverpool was caught adding a sentence to the Halo 3 entry on Wikipedia. The person in question added the sentence ‘Although it won’t look any better than Halo 2′ to the game description which has been removed after discovery.

The manipulation was discovered using the highly acclaimed Wikiscanner which is a searchable database for all Wikipedia edits that have been made.

One has to ask if this was the doings of an individual or sanctioned by Sony and I would guess that it was done by an individual. By using a IP assigned to Sony however Sony is to blaim, again. Real Manipulation looks different and is not done from company computers at all.

You hire someone far away or use your home computer with dynamic IPs or proxies to manipulate which is much harder to spot. This time it was just the blunder of one single employee which happened to fall back on Sony because he was using their network to manipulate the entry.

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