Undercover NBC Dateline reporter bolts from DEFCON 2007

[reyfer]

Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan (Associate Producer of NBC Dateline) got a little more than she bargained for when she tried to sneak in to DEFCON 2007 with hidden cameras to get someone to confess to a felony.

[Asmodai]

Well, they'll still spin this, but NBC came off looking pretty stupid.

[reyfer]

Well, they'll still spin this, but NBC came off looking pretty stupid.

Yes. Doesn't NBC have people to tell them that DEFCON is a place where hackers and government agencies and security firms get together to share experiences? And this woman gets in with a story already written, apparently, trying to get someone to do something illegal on camera so they can tell the country that hackers are dangerous. Some people need to realize that "hacker" and "cyberterrorist" are not the same, quite often the former stops the latter.

[aKaoNi]

^ Good point. Yeah I heard about this and saw the clip of her walking to her car off of youtube, she was a total id 10 t.

[claymore]

wonderful 

[fsw]

It just underlines the level of ignorance there is with computer security in the mainstream media, where a CPU is referred to as the "brain" of a computer.

[StreakInTheSky]

what dumbasses at NBC.