Dateline Mole Allegedly At DefCon With Hidden Camera

[Nomad559]

Dateline Mole Allegedly At DefCon With Hidden Camera -- Updated: Mole Caught on Tape

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/media-mole-at-d.html

DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. DefCon says it was tipped off by their own mole at Dateline who sent them a pic of the undercover journalist who DefCon employees identified as producer Michelle Madigan.

DefCon, an annual underground hacking convention in Las Vegas, has a strict policy against filming conference attendees -- TV media outlets are barred from sweeping a room with their cameras and also have to get permission from any individuals before capturing them on film. 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.
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UPDATE 2: NBC's mole, Michelle Madigan, became a predator herself this afternoon when she was outed at DefCon as an undercover reporter and bolted out of the conference hotel with about two dozen reporters with cameras and others chasing after her -- in the manner of an NBC Dateline To Catch a Predator episode.

[Demeter]

1. Games People Play....

Sing along with me

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Dateline is wasting millions of dollars on bs like this, instead of covering the crimes of Bush nt

[msongs]

3. yeah, some criminals are better than other criminals nt

[Demeter]

4. Bush's Crimes Aren't Sexy

They are horrifying. Probably couldn't pass the FCC censor (:rofl:)