Coming Clean
To follow up on this post, our very own Di Fi acknowledged that a former staffer altered her wikipedia profile and her husband’s profile. This admission
came out after wikipedia conducted an investigation of the
Congressional staffers who made edits to the site, and released the results.
From the report, I am most amused that Senator Rick Santorum’s staffers
erased references to the Dan Savage definition of his last name,
and by WP’s simple deductive technique for IP address mapping:
The U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms owns the IP block 156.33.0.0 to
156.33.255.255. Requests to learn the mapping of these thousands of IPs
were not responded to at press time. However, the lower 100 blocks of
addresses appear to be mapped to the 100 Senators based on their
state’s alphabetical listing. This was partially confirmed using e-mail
responses from the offices of Senators; where the originating computer
was connected to the network directly and was not a part of block 222
(a section which seems to be reserved for servers), the IP addresses
matched the predicted pattern.
156.33.255.255. Requests to learn the mapping of these thousands of IPs
were not responded to at press time. However, the lower 100 blocks of
addresses appear to be mapped to the 100 Senators based on their
state’s alphabetical listing. This was partially confirmed using e-mail
responses from the offices of Senators; where the originating computer
was connected to the network directly and was not a part of block 222
(a section which seems to be reserved for servers), the IP addresses
matched the predicted pattern.