NBC Dateline Spy at Security Conference!
Posted on: August 4th, 2007 by Tony DesimasNBC Dateline Spy at Security Conference!
DEFCON, the world’s largest annual hacker convention, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada, was interrupted when an undercover Dateline NBC Producer Michelle Madigan was publicly outed for trying to film attendees with a hidden camera.
Show organizers feared that the NBC Dateline Producer wanted to create some sort of sensationalistic story of federal agents mingling with hackers know to skirt the law.
Just imagine if Madigan had succeeded and hackers were aired on Sunday night’s Dateline shaking hands with federal agents! That would’ve been a nice scoop for NBC Dateline, but think of the long term loss of jobs and reputation.
Tony D.
