[Update] The News Corp scandal

Politicians like Watson and Mensch give you hope in the system

It just gets worse..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14351004

A new team of officers is to probe allegations of computer hacking, the Metropolitan Police has announced.
Operation Tuleta will examine breach of privacy claims received since January.

Scotland Yard said the new team would investigate matters not covered by its phone-hacking inquiry, Operation Weeting, and report to Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers.
A spokesman said there had previously been a "consideration of allegations" of computer hacking rather than an investigation, but now "some aspects of that operation are being moved towards investigation".
The Met investigation is understood to include an examination of the covert use of "Trojan horse" computer viruses, which allow hackers to take control of third-party computers.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

It just gets worse..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14351004

You know no matter which party an MP is in if it is proved they have been involved in this hacking or using information gleaned from hacking they should be SACKED, Don't allow them to resign SACK them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...documents.html

The staff at The New York Post, Rupert Murdoch's US tabloid, have been instructed by company lawyers to save any documents that might relate to phone hacking and bribery.

The directive is a clear signs that News Corp expects that two criminal investigations under way in America will cover Mr Murdoch's US operations as well as his British newspapers.

The Justice Department is drawing up subpoenas as part of the two-pronged inquiries into whether journalists sought to hack the phones of 9/11 terror victims and paid British police for information in breach of US foreign bribery laws.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...f-scandal.html

Senior Labour figures socialised with members of the Murdoch family and News International executives at a string of exclusive social events, records released by the party have revealed.

Just some of the latest articles.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...documents.html



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...f-scandal.html



Just some of the latest articles.

Yes l am afraid that Labour has its fingers in the pies as well to a certain extent.

Den ... I think you need to stop trying to judge which Party has had the most fingers in the News Corp pie. Both Labour and Conservative have been in up to their wrists.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chris

Den ... I think you need to stop trying to judge which Party has had the most fingers in the News Corp pie. Both Labour and Conservative have been in up to their wrists.

Yes you are right but most of us still like to have a say though even if we are wrong sometimes and l have been wrong here and there.

Emma Hartley's blog

Interesting and thoughtful insights.Here is just one.

I'm not soliciting sympathy. Learning to compromise is part of being an adult. I'm just saying: if journalism is to be held accountable for the inexcusable behaviour at News International, these things are relevant. I suggest that overweening fear of losing one's job could be partly responsible for the industry's lack of self-examination. It's a small industry at a national level and bullying managerial behaviour and top-down-ism are - whisper it - deeply ingrained. It's inconceivable that Rebekah Brooks didn't know what was going on but also understandable that no one blew the whistle for so long.

[LondonRoad]

Originally Posted by Chris

Den ... I think you need to stop trying to judge which Party has had the most fingers in the News Corp pie. Both Labour and Conservative have been in up to their wrists.

This isn't party political. I'm still not convinced that it's confined to the NOTW either.

[watzizname]

Originally Posted by LondonRoad

This isn't party political. I'm still not convinced that it's confined to the NOTW either.

Am sure I read somewhere (maybe in this thread?) that the reason Milly Dowler's voicemail messages were deleted, wasn't to free up room for new ones, but to prevent rival rags from accessing them.

I guess the more the spotlight is shone on a select few, the less attention others (perhaps as equally deserving) are likely to receive.

There certainly seems to be an awful lot of newspapers and politicians (on both sides of the fence) keeping the focus on a select few right now..

[Chad]

I've just received this e-mail from The Sun.

"Dear Reader,

I am writing to you on behalf of News Group Newspapers (NGN) – publisher of The Sun and former publisher of the News of the World.

As you may be aware on July 19th The Sun website was subject to an organised criminal attack. It has now come to our attention that some customer information from competitions and polls was breached as part of this attack. Details vary, but could include name, address, date of birth, email and phone numbers. No financial or password information was compromised.

We are contacting you because we believe that information that you submitted to us could have been accessed, and may be published online by the group responsible. We are working closely with the Police and the Information Commissioner's Office to ensure that all steps are taken to retrieve the files involved.

We regret that we've not been able to stop this incident from happening. We'll update you directly if there are further developments related to your specific data. We would advise as a precaution to take extra care when dealing with contact from third parties if they are unknown to you.

In the meantime if you have any questions or require any further information, please contact us at custserv@thesun.co.uk or on 0207 8601129.

Regards,
Chris Duncan
Director of Customer Management"

I'm not happy about this at all. Anyone else received an e-mail like this today or am I the only one sad enough to post in The Sun forums?

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by Chad

I'm not happy about this at all. Anyone else received an e-mail like this today or am I the only one sad enough to post in The Sun forums?

I am sure there are others sad enough. Astonishing as it may seem people actually read that excuse for a newspaper.

It just gets murkier and murkier doesn't it? When those in a position to manage information, we all depend on, turn out to be corrupt as well as fatally partial I get very concerned about the state of our democracy and the well-being of our society.

[denphone]

And this does not surprise me and just tells us how endemic things were at News International.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-2330254.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011...mass-deletions

It's not quite so bad

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...d-2330261.html

Think your email has been wiped when you press the delete button? Well think again. Removing information from a hard drive or server may seem like a simple one-click procedure, but permanently deleting data is all but impossible without military grade software.

Emails are no different. When you send someone a message it will travel through – and be stored on – a whole host of servers, from a sender's hard drive, to a company's server, through various email gateways and then on to the recipient's server and hard drive.
The only way to delete such an email permanently would be to wipe it at each and every one of those steps. If investigators have access to those steps they can start to piece together the gaps.

[denphone]

There has been another arrest today of a important former NOTW editor.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...d-2330587.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-arrested.html