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Murdoch Voicemail Hacking Story 'Ain't Over Yet'
lee317 writes "Reuters is reporting that Rupert Murdoch's headache over the alleged phone hacking by his News Corp's reporters could be small compared to what is ahead. So far, around 20 public figures who believe their voicemail messages were intercepted by journalists at the popular News of the World tabloid are suing News International, the UK newspaper arm of News Corp. After a public apology from the newspaper aimed at 'put(ting) this problem into a box,' a UK judge eluded to the fact that civil cases against the firm could run into next year at least."
I think you've misread TFS. The journalists are not doing the suing. The suing is by "20 public figures". The journalists are the villains of this story, and are employees of Murdoch, who is the villain of pretty much every story.
The villains are those who buy Murdoch's products.
For example, if you have Sky TV subscription then you are part of the problem. Everything from NotW to Fox News is your fault.
...those sneaky judges, so elusive.
Perhaps he "alluded" to the fact?
An investigation into newsgathering practices at the News of the World has so far touched celebrities, government ministers, sports stars and British Prime Minister David Cameron, repeatedly making headline news in rival publications.
TFA leaves out the fact that the News of the World "journalists" also went after the voicemails of military and police officials as well.
I'm amazed that the British Government hasn't arrested more people, if for no other reason than there were serious national security concerns when they first found out about it.
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Whether the problem is an election, a rival corporation, or a rival nation, chances are an army of hackers can go about solving it in sophisticated or simple ways.
I think we are in the cyberwarfare era. Corporations, governments, and private individuals will be able to hire hackers for doxing services, or other more controversial services.
You're suggesting that the correct term escaped him?
According to early reports there is evidence that News of the World was not the only UK paper doing this. Is there any effort to identify the others?
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Intercepted - British English (eg http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/56 )
Wiretapping - American English
Erm this was journalists targeting political rivals, union activists etc
They hacked mobile phone voicemail. Was a pretty simple "hack" for most, some was social engineered afaik.
Perhaps even simpler than that...
I'm amazed the carriers haven't come in for any criticism. Voicemail accounts could be accessed from any phone by entering a PIN - and they were mostly preset to a default, such as '1111' or '1234'. In these cases, you just needed the phone number of the celebrity. Call the remote voicemail service, enter the PIN, and you'd be in.
I remember working for a cellphone reseller in 1997, and being surprised by this. The company leased handsets to the stars of certain soap operas, and the customer care peeps were listening to voicemails down the pub of an evening.
Information wants to be beer.
I'm pretty sure the word TFS was looking for was "alluded", not "eluded". The difference is pretty significant in context.
Not only that, but allude is not the right word to use in the first place as, according to TFA, the judge directly said that civil cases against the firm could run into next year at least.
Wikileaks doesn't do a damned thing. They take information given to them. This is a violation of privacy done by intrusion into systems the newspapers have no business being in.
Wow, you must be reading Slashdot in Universe B.
So, here, there have been two "violations". First, obtaining data, then publishing it. By only doing the second, Wikileaks keeps its hands clean and wears white and is free from any responsibility for its actions. So, which is the sin? Obtaining the data, or publishing it? And if either one of these is evil, then why is the 'ORRIBLE BIASED MEDIA being criticized for it (observe in this thread educated people publically spewing vile hatred), and Manning and Wikileaks get the exact same people writing stirring defenses of the same behavior?
You know as well as I do that views change according to who can be villainized. It's an inconvenient truth.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It is always elitist dogma bullshit framed as patriotic-religious public interest dogma. Fox is just one of many....
Without the Internet and WWW news resources, no one in any country gets the truth today. Broadcast and publishing news is all about hype, snipe, pop, frame, spin, faux experts, pseudo pundits....
The more the citizens of any country listen to broadcast and publishing news the greater the stupidity or illiteracy. Yes, I have just insulted the general public of every nation, but the truth never hurts the stupidity or illiteracy, because they never hear the truth.
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
They have "minders" trained by KRM. It's already looking like an Eastern government, in which the civil servants of the original ruler have the real power under his sons, until everyone has forgotten the original - like the Mikado (which I believe means "Palace gate")
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You must be a Brit. The correct term here in the states is Freedom Listening.
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