'Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests:' Did anonymous Wikipedia editor try to reveal CIA chief's affair in January?

On January 26 2012, an anonymous editor wrote on Paula Broadwell's page on the website: 'Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests'

Attempt to trace anonymous poster using IP address was unsuccessful



An anonymous Wikipedia editor may have tried to reveal David Petraeus's extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell.

In January, the biographer-turned-mistress appeared on the Daily Show to pitch her book about the CIA director titled 'All In.'



The day after Wikipedia editor Vanobamo created a page for the author, which is common practice on the user-contributed online encyclopedia.

But less than an hour later an anonymous editor logged on to the website and wrote: 'Petraeus is reportedly one of her many conquests.'

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But now in hindsight, is unknown if Broadwell's Wikipedia outing was speculation by a Daily Show viewer, or if the poste r had secret knowledge of Petraeus cheating on Holly his wife of 37 years

Since news of the posting was reelased, several attempts have been made to track the IP address and determine the poster.

An IP address is an address assigned to every computer and other devices are logged onto the Internet to uniquely define them.



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When Gawker ran it through the American Registry for Internet Numbers, they failed to come up with a name, but the result showed a company called Cisco Systems, Inc.



They explained that this means 'Cisco, the tech giant based in San Jose, was given that IP address, but anyone could have been using it, and it could have been ported to another location around the world.'

Before last Friday Paula Broadwell's Wikipedia page was quite bare, but then former CIA director David Petraeus resigned.





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