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Michelle Delio neé Finley

(Wag the Delio)

Ms. Delio has a long history in Attrition errata and as a result of her recent Stephen-Glass-like scandal over making up "minor sources for color quotes", we've decided to give her her own page using a moniker we jokingly applied to her style of writing first in a presentation to the Black Hat Briefings conference in 2001. Wag the Delio.

• Wired News Releases Source Review by Wired News, 05/09/2005
• Adam Penenberg's Report for Wired (PDF), 05/09/2005
• Probe Can't Confirm Sources in Freelancer's Stories for 'Wired News' by Ted Bridis, Associated Press, in Editor & Publisher, 05/09/2005
• Review raises doubts about reporter's accuracy by Ken Maguire, Associated Press, 04/21/2005
• Independent-Investigation Findings by Susan Rasky, Technology Review, 04/20/2005
• MIT publication retracts two stories by Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, 03/22/2005
• More Stories Retracted, This Time at 'Technology Review' by E&P Staff, Editor & Publisher, 03/20/2005
• What We Can Learn From Michelle Delio by Carl Bialik, Gelf Magazine, 05/19/2005

Origins of "Wag the Delio"

• ISN listserve email post, first public usage of "Wag the Delio". B.K. DeLong a.k.a. MacIntyre, 09/28/2001
• Attrition performs defacement mirror autopsy by Thomas C. Greene, The Register, 07/18/2001
• MIRROR::IMAGE, Attrition.org Black Hat Security Conference Presentation where "Wag the Delio" is born.
• Cyberwar with China: Self-fulfilling Prophecy by jericho & sioda, Attrition.org Defaced Commentary, 04/29/2001. This editorial details the event which led to the coining of the term "Wag the Delio". It was thought that had Ms. Delio not "stirred the pot" with her articles, the mass defacements may have never occured.

Additional Resources

• Technology Review articles by Michelle Delio

http://www.wagthedelio.org
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