Posted on 08/05/2007 2:13:09 PM PDT by buzzyboop
An NBC reporter learned the hard (and embarrassing) way that DefCon 15, a conference of underground hackers who also happen to be security experts, is not the place to go undercover with a hidden camera.
George Ou, who blogs for CNET News.com's sister site ZDNet, has written a detailed account of the drama that unfolded Friday at the Las Vegas conference when staff members announced the "spot the undercover reporter" game. Staffers had apparently learned that a Dateline NBC producer hoping to catch someone confessing to a hacking crime was there as a regular attendee after refusing repeatedly to seek a press pass.
Just as DefCon officials were about to put her photo up on the conference projector, the reporter bolted and a crowd followed her out to her car, taking video and shouting out questions and statements. (Check out the YouTube video embedded in Ou's blog). Our favorite comment, by far: "You must feel like Lindsay Lohan."
And we thought Black Hat was exciting.
I love seeing the tables turned on the NBC vermin, for once. For the video of the NBC producer exposed and run out of town, click on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCvmkxO5hoQ&mode=related&search=
PWNED.
I’d like to see Howard Stern interview her in the nude....
“I’d like to see Howard Stern interview her in the nude....”
What would you want to see Howard Stern in the nude? You are a sick pup. :)
Any comments from NBC yet?
I realized I was serving up a straight line after I posted that.
Just as DefCon officials were about to put her photo up on the conference projector, the reporter bolted and a crowd followed her out to her car, taking video and shouting out questions and statements. (Check out the YouTube video embedded in Ou’s blog). Our favorite comment, by far: “You must feel like Lindsay Lohan.”
ROTFLMAO!
Its worth the entire 6:02 you spend watching.
BOLTED? Wow, if her walking away is BOLTING we have an issue. Of course scrawny geeks do tend to exagerate when dealing with women in any fashion at all to each other.
She was so easy to pick out of the crowd.
First: She was female
Second: She was attractive
Now if they sent a pimply, skinny, pale 18 year old, he would have fit right in.
Personally I have no issue if they didn’t want her there without press credentials, and humiliating her to get her to leave fine and dandy, but the comments that were made to her as they followed her were pretty low brow and explain why most of these guys will die alone.
I am no fan of Dateline, or their general tactics, but those are calls made by higher grade people than the person they send in with the hidden camera.
Mark my words, while I am all for getting pervs off the street, it is only a matter of time before that guy that does the on camera stuff for the “to catch a predator” segment comes out of the back room with that smug look on his face, only to find out the guy he’s looking to use as entertainment pulls a gun on him and realizing his life is ruined, commits a murder suicide right there with their hidden cameras rolling.
Dateline is shameless, and they will wind up getting someone killed as they try to turn law enforcement into entertainment... however to characterise this as her running away, or some grand coup by these guys is comical.
She calmly walked away, on the phone I am sure telling her boss she’d been outed and it was over, while a few twits made rude remarks. To classify this as her running away, or bolting is comical.
Why wouldn’t they send a pimply 20 something to infiltrate the group?
This reminds me when local Boston anchors were in the midst of a divorce. They made one public statement that their divorce was a personal matter. That was it. Noone ever bothered them. No reporters showed up at their door to get a story. Unlike others that they would chase down the street sticking microphones in their face.
I have no problem with these little twerps running sfter her and shouting and taking pictures.
Recently a reporter confronted a real estate swindler and got absolutely tuned by the guy and his crazed wife. The reporter was bloodied and battered.
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