Virgil Griffith

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home User:VirgilGriffith The Washington Post, as Virgil notes at the top of his web page, has called him a "disruptive technologist," who "has caused public relations disasters" but another reading is that if more people did what Virgil does, we would have a more honest society and more responsible corporations. Virgil used his wikiscanner software, which has lots uses, to report on malfeasance, that is, Surreptitious wiki edits designed to cover up wrongdoings.

Another example usage of wikiscanner is showing internet sites geographically, for which instructions are provided.

One might also see other top young hackers whose work is of great benefit to an open societies.