NBC Reporter Goes Undercover At Hacker Convention, Gets Caught

Ken McCracken  •  August 5, 2007

This has been in a lot of headlines just recently. I guess some hackers decided to get together and hold a conference, and NBC sent a reporter undercover to document what went on inside. She got caught, and ended up having to do a walk of shame out of the convention area.


A word of advice to NBC: If you’re going to send someone undercover to a computer geek fest, it’s probably not a good idea to choose an attractive blond woman for the job.
Because I’m certain that’s what tipped them off.

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  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    One of the longer “perp walks” in the history of the genre! Her detractors should have quit while they were ahead. Towards the end, their taunting just sounded like mean, geeky adolescents.

  • Mickey

    When nerds attack

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    Rob, shame on you! >:(
    You catch spot a non-hacker within the first 15 minutes of holding a conversation with them. Not only does this expose their intellectual knowledge but, their disinterest and boredom can not be disguised.
    YOU CAN NOT differentiate tech/hackers from non-tech/hackers simply on looks …thank you very much! ;-P

  • Pilgrim

    Yikes! I don’t feel a bit sorry for her, though. If you’re not clever enough to not get caught by a bunch like this then, well, tough.

    And I thought their heckling was rather good natured. If she had been caught at the Yearly Kos it would have been ugly, vulgar, and possibly even dangerous.

  • http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

    Geeks are paranoid when it comes to “girl germs!”

  • 2Hotel9

    And this reporter’s woes have only just begun. Attack of the nerds, indeed!

  • 2Hotel9

    Ya can’t tell me NBC does not have an entire floor in Rock Center jammed full of geeks. Hell, NBC employees were probably their for the hack-a-thon.

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  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    lol. they have no fear of geek girl germs!

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