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Virgil Griffith, 24, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology and self-styled "Mad Scientist. Disruptive Technologist", has create a giant headache for the [mis]communications departments of some of the world's best-known companies courtesy of a device that tracks the source of changes made to Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia.

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