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Re:Pushbullet Channel Has Been Compromised by greenyoda on Saturday August 15, 2015 @04:53AM (#10064767)
If Pushbullet is designed to announce changes to Wikipedia pages, then it hasn't been compromised - it's working exactly as intended. The real question is, should people be relying on Wikipedia - which any random person (or troll) can edit - as a source of actionable information?

If I were interested in the latest news about which companies Google had acquired, I'd be crawling Google's Investor Relations pages, not Wikipedia.

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Re:Pushbullet Channel Has Been Compromised by Theo59 on Saturday August 15, 2015 @09:42AM (#10065338)
That's a really good point, I've been using Pushbullet for a year now and didn't realise these announcements weren't verified. If anyone wants to see the troll announcements: http://www.clipular.com/c/5738478393360384.png?k=Qv9rfMKnRDe...

Edited: The Google channel may just be a rare exception, I've not sure about how the notifications are triggered but it may be unfortunate that the urls contain both "google" and "acquire <4chan>" but then just links to a a google search result.

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