I can't decide which is creepier: that a major network decided this was somehow newsworthy enough to "sting" with a hidden camera or the shot of a herd of geeks chasing after a cute, blonde girl making "To Catch a Predator" references..

Maybe next time the network will be smart enough to at least send someone who would actually blend in!

In some underaged boys house, then is it even television?

Yet another unfortunate example of journalism ethics gone wrong. I have no idea why Dateline would have sent her in there, it doesn't seem like a pressing issue that demands some sort of undercover report. Sensationalist reporting like this is only damaging journalism, and it's a shame.

The 6-minute video was not worth watching when you could have described the situation in a paragraph I could have read in 30 seconds. Guy describes contest, someone with camera follows her to the car. There were no outbursts, no real communication with the subject even. The video was too long, too dizzying, and not worth the time it took to watch it.

That was probably the closest they've ever gotten to a good looking woman who wasn't made up of pixels. I suppose the reporter was thinking that this would be her "Ashley Banfield" moment, which would propel her into news superstardom. Of course, we all remember Ashley Banfield and those cute glasses! Whatever happened to her, again?

Here was someone playing one of the standard journalist games - reveal the dumbness and geekiness of anyone who isn't a TV reporter. It's been standard at any gathering of people with over an IQ of 75, far above the intelligence level of most TV reporters. Make fun of the people who dress funny, use big words and can speak in complete sentences, and praise people like George Bush and Donald Trump. The standard tropes of TV journalism in this miserable age.

Only here, someone turns the tables. And you guys are upset? You are bothered that this little scumbag gets the tables turned on her? That she was revealed for the incompetent she is?

The crowd should have done worse to her. They should have thrown their Diet Cokes at her. They should have hounded her, gotten her personal identity information (they're hackers, after all) and made her life a living hell, due payment for what she and the MSM have done to all of us for years. Most of all, they should have gotten a decent video camera there to film her, instead of those crappy "camera phones," so the video would be clear enough to make a wanted poster of her face.

Everyone makes fun of the nerds. Until they need something. Well screw you media guy. Fix it your damn self.

The closest they've ever gotten to a cute girl? I don't know if you noticed, but the video (and numerous other people hounding the reporter) WERE women and WERE attrative (in fact you would be amazed by the number of attractive women who attend any given tech/hacking/lan game/nerdy whatever conference out there). What do you know, attractive women who also are intelligent, and evidently not sell outs, like said reporter is, Amazing!

Very nice I envy us, with one stroke of your trying-to-be-snarky pen, you manage to do nothing but denigrate both men and women who went to DEFCON, many of whom have mental and social skills far in excess of what you've show us here. Not only do you go for the classic stereotype of the cathode-ray-tanned unsocialized, unclean, subhuman male computer geek, but you simultaneously imply that a computer security convention like DEFCON is not an event any woman would want to be seen at and that women shouldn't or wouldn't want to be involved in computer security. Both of which are patently false because I know personally about a dozen women who regularly attend DEFCON either as staff or are sent there by their employers, some of whom happen to speak/present there just about every year.

You, of course, are way too cool for any of this. You couldn't possibly be bothered to be curious about the security and stability and workings of the electronic world on which your life depends. No, you'd much rather just sit on your ass, carp and expect us to just drop everything and beg you to let us fix your computer the instant something happens to it you don't understand.

Think again.

Fuck off if you can't take a joke

Hey, I envy us, here's what happened to "Ashley" Banfield.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/truths-consequences-by-digby-since.html

Do a little research before you make a stupid joke.