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HP Spying Incident Included Journalists

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the none-spared dept.

rufey writes "It is now being reported that the HP boardroom spying incident that occurred earlier this year also involved obtaining phone records of journalists from at least two news outlets. Journalists from CNET and the Wall Street Journal had their phone records obtained through a method called 'pretexting' to see who, if any, of the HP board members the journalists may have been in contact with."

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  1. uh ohhhhhhh by Desolator144 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    spying on your own people is one thing but spy on people outside the company and uh ohhhhh, you're in extra trouble! That must be the policy because it sort of fits with how they don't catch more crap about having all HP computers come preinstalled with mal/ad/bad/annoy/bloat/painintheass-ware. Now if they made a deal with Microsoft to put it in a windows update so they could annoy non-HP customers, uh ohhhhhhhh!
    P.S. hmmm...why no uh oh for AOL and their crap software?

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