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

    I certainly didn't vote for them in 2004.

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  2. 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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  3. 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.