According to a database that tracks the sources of anonymous edits to Wikipedia, Diebold, the manufacturer of defective and easily hacked touch-screen voting machines has had someone heavily edit a Wikipedia article about these voting machines. According to Virgil Griffith, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, someone from Diebold deleted "wholesale a 15-paragraph section describing computer scientists’ concerns with the devices."
Read the Chronicle of Higher Education article that alerted me to this rather unscholarly editing job.
Here's a link to Wikipedia scanner the database of the origin of edits.
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It turns out that I live about 3 block away from Diebold and have written software for several embedded systems. Maybe I should apply for a job there and keep an eye on them.
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