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HP Spying More Elaborate Than Reported

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the an-inventer's-garage-meets-keystone-kops dept.

theodp writes "The NY Times reports the secret investigation of news leaks at HP was more elaborate than previously reported. In addition to illicitly gathering private phone records almost from the start, detectives reportedly followed and videotaped some directors and journalists, were given photos of reporters to help identify them, and tried to plant surveillance software on a CNET reporter's computer. HP also fessed up to spying on its own spokesman, whose personal phone records were taken."

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  1. More News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This just in, Patricia Dunn has been discovered to be more evil than Hitler and Stalin ... combined.

    More at eleven.

    1. Re:More News by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe that torture, nay, gruesome inquisition! and Guantanamo is TOO GOOD for these despicable insurgents who tried to make information from HP public. Unless we can control the release of information - by any means possible! - we cannot sustain freedom and democracy! -- What? -- "It's only HP, you stupid bugger!" --- OH. OOOPS. Hey, Dick, don't shoot that reporter in the face! It's only HP! Geeze, clearing brush is so much simpler than this job.

  2. Who does HP think they are? by mhazen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I certainly didn't vote for them in 2004.

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    1. Re:Who does HP think they are? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Ahh, the beauty of Slashdot, where an off-topic Bush-bashing can always be expected to occur within the first five posts.

  3. News Flash... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So did HP take a secret contract from the Bush Administration to become a covert version of the FBI/CIA/NSA without any government oversight? News at 11!

    1. Re:News Flash... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      So did HP take a secret contract from the Bush Administration to become a covert version of the FBI/CIA/NSA without any government oversight? News at 11!

      Well, we COULD answer that question, but then we'd have to kill you.

  4. Irony in the details by carpeweb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, this new story has a hidden gem.

    According to TFA: "People briefed on HP's review of its internal investigation say that it was authorized by Dunn, the chairwoman, and put under the supervision of Kevin Hunsaker, a senior counsel who is the company's director of ethics."

    How could it be otherwise?

  5. Logistical nightmare by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny
    HP also fessed up to spying on its own spokesman, whose personal phone records were taken.
    How exactly did they fess up to that? I can just see the spokesman reading a memo to reporters..

    "...and we at Hewlett Packard also regret using false pretenses to obtain the personal phone reacords of their spokesman, one Mr..... the freaking HELL?!"
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  6. Scandal goes higher than Dunn by motorcrash · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to this newly disclosed recording:

    Simon: Gentlemen, I'd like you to meet your captain, Captain Oveur.
    Clarence Oveur: Gentlemen, welcome aboard.
    Simon: Captain, your navigator, Mr. Unger, and your first officer, Dunn.
    Clarence Oveur: Unger.
    Unger: Oveur.
    Dunn: Oveur.
    Clarence Oveur: Dunn. Gentlemen, let's get to work.
    Simon: Unger, didn't you serve under Oveur in the Air Force?
    Unger: Not directly. Technically, Dunn was under Oveur and I was under Dunn.
    Dunn: Yep.
    Simon: So, Dunn, you were under Oveur and over Unger.
    Unger: Yep.
    Clarence Oveur: That's right. Dunn was over Unger and I was over Dunn.
    Unger: So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn.
    Clarence Oveur: Dunn was over Unger, and I was over Dunn.
  7. Re:Would you work for a company that does this? by Opie812 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cynical, *and* vaguely ominious in a 4 word sentance. Very nice.

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