Bob McCarty Writes

Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. More incredibly, the magazine reports, one blogger “saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper type of [...]

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In a piece yesterday at WIRED.COM’s THREAT LEVEL blog, Kevin Paulsen predicted “a lot of sad, embarrassing secrets will emerge from this project once netizens dive into it — and we’d like to be a part of that.”
So would I!
The “project” Paulsen talked about is The Wikipedia Scanner, a tool which became the subject of [...]

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