Wikipedia edits, blogs and the CIA

I was reading Wikipedia today and looking at anonymous edits at the Wikipedia Scanner. The CIA netblock has many anonymous Wikipedia page edits, including edits to the user page of "Acadac" from IP address 198.81.129.193. Interestingly Acadac's Wiki page links to Acadac's AOL Page, where I learned that Acadac's "real" name is David Calvin Andrus, Ph.D. A quick google search and I found that Andrus is the Chief Technology Officer, Center for Mission Innovation at the CIA.

A search of the IP address 198.81.129.193 on Wiki Scanner yields a list of edits to a wide range of Wiki articles on the topics of The Director of National Intelligence, Encryption, the TV show Jericho, The Year 2000 Problem, etc. Most edits seemed to be of items that the IP address owner was interested in on a personal level.

Three questions:

1. Is 198.81.129.193 the IP address of the desktop computer of the CIA Chief Technology Officer of the Center for Mission Innovation?

2. What are the implications for the accuracy of Wikipedia's information if the CIA is manipulating the global "open source" encyclopedia? I say, who cares?

3. Should Dr. Andrus be tweaking his Wikipedia user page from his work machine?

Using google, Wikipedia Scanner and Arin, I was able to find that the Chief Technology Officer, Center for Mission Innovation at the CIA is named Dr. Andrus, that he is a Mormon with five children, that he has a Blogger.com blog.

From the blog's sitemeter counter, I found that he is a Cox Cable subscriber, that he uses Windows XP, and that he browses with Firefox. I know that he was at home at his computer from 8:02 to 8:48 PM on October 18th 2007.

With the ATT Whitepages, I found that he lives in Sterling Virgina at 1947 E Beech Rd and his home phone number is 703-444-9169 (a Verizon landline). His wife's name is Janet, middle initial G. I know what books he reads, what music he listens to, what he looks like. I read the family Christmas letter from 1995, and know the kids names and hobbies. I looked at his house on maps.google.com.

I was thinking to myself that his means that someone could find out this much about me with the same amount of effort. I wonder if our society become too information based?

I did this from Tennessee, but could have just as easily found this information from China or North Korea, or (gasp) Iran. Imagine the infrastructure and expense that the Soviets would have needed to get this info on Dr. Andrus in circa 1955. I got it in 15 minutes, for free.

By the way, Dr. Andrus' blog is fascinating, so I added a link, right below the Communist Party USA.

12:35 PM 10/22/07 Edit: In an interesting display of recursion, a google search for the Andrus home phone number lists this blog entry as the third link.