Swiss government tests VoIP bugging Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung , reports that the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (UVEK) hired ERA IT Solutions some time ago to come up with a program capable of infecting PCs and tapping conversations without the need to crack VoIP PC-to-PC encryption.

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Well, that was odd. This story briefly made the front page and got buried. That's not the odd part. After it got buried, it kept getting Diggs for no apparent reason. It was buried. No one was going to see it unless they specifically looked for it or if it were dugg by one of their friends.

At one point it was up to 36 diggs. Looking through the list to see who was digging it after it got buried, I saw some names I hadn't seen before. There were a total of 6 that I checked on that had just registered today. They had no friends, so the idea that they found a buried story through their friends was out. When I went to check their history, it came up as "invalid user provided." Poof. Gone. I can only assume that since these accounts were created today and disappeared a short while later, that they were banned.

It seems someone is up to some kind of shenanigans here. I don't mind that the story got buried. It happens. No big deal. What happened afterward is annoying. Someone (or several someones) were up to no good apparently trying to resurrect a buried story. I don't know who or why, but I'm glad they were caught and banned.

Update: this gets stranger and stranger. 2 of the 6 profiles that I noticed being banned earlier have reappeared in the "Who Dugg This" link. But their profile still comes up as invalid. I've also noticed that there are more brand new accounts digging this story. I'm beginning to wonder if this is some kind of attempt to get me banned.  ¶ 3:00 PM 0 comments