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HP Spying Incident Included Journalists
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."
First post. Maybe this would be a good time to describe the time I was recruited by al Quaida to build them an atomic bomb, by the guy who hand-delivered their cash...
calling someone from CNET a "journalist".
Question is: Will you feel worse if HP didn't make an attempt to get at your phone/email records?
The corporate overlords and the government are the same, they are people. It's simply, spying is legal as long as you don't get caught. It's always been happening, and with technology it's just easier, but just assume that you are being spied on by everyone and always have been.
Tell me why anyone would be prosecuted for spying when the patriot act eliminates privacy? This means that spying is now officially legal.
Corporate spying has been going on forever anyway, now with the patriot act in place, it can happen legally. There is no way to prosecute this because the patriot act makes it legal. If you prosecute it will only strengthen the power of the patriot act.
I'm not a lawyer, but as I see it, what stops them from using the patriot act in their defense?
"i dispute your assertion that the usa isn't special by asserting that the usa is special"
no, there is nothing special about the usa
it's just another fucking country
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it