Oh ho ho, I’ve come across a veritable gold mine of laughs, right here on the Internet. A student has apparently written a program that cross references IPs logged by Wikipedia (whenever someone edits something) to an IP directory. This allows the tracing of IP addresses to various specific organizations.
Naturally, I immediately looked up my school’s records - bingo! You just have to dig around a bit to savour the hilarious edits, no doubt made by a random crew of miscellaneous bored students. I’m pretty sure every other school has their own Wikipedia vandal gang; here’s one. Well, other organizations worth a little snooping into are the Singaporean Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Certain employees in the public sector evidently have quite a bit of free time on their hands…
ISPs, especially those providing wireless services, are another good repository: take a look at Qala’s log, for example - some inter-school rivalry going below the belt, there.
But, damn, no records exist for the National Kidney Foundation - and I was so sure someone there would attempt an online cover-up, too. Perhaps they’d the good sense to use some anonymous proxies.
Anyway, that’s enough talk from me, go find more.
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haha. this is fun. i’m checking out my old schools…