Hackers taking over

[Dondilion]

Facets of the twilight zone: Hackers are everywhere.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/20117682634336422.html

[CarlV]

Yep, real classy stuff. Good old fair and balanced Rupert. :p

http://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/search.html?sb=-1&sa=ns&st=Milly+Dowler
Rebekah Brooks, then editor of News of the World and now chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, has dismissed calls for her resignation in connection with the scandal.

In an e-mail to staff posted on Tuesday on the Sky News Web site, she wrote: “I hope that you all realise it is inconceivable that I knew or worse, sanctioned these appalling allegations.”


In 2002, 13-year-old Milly Dowler went missing. In the days following her disappearance, the family left frantic phone messages on her cell, clogging her voicemail, until it was too full and could not accept any more. Then, suddenly, the voicemail cleared and her family could leave messages again.

The family suddenly had hope that Milly Dowler might be alive.

They were wrong. The girl had been murdered. Instead, a private investigator who worked for News of the World, a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, allegedly hacked into her phone and deleted the messages.

The phone hacking scandal in Britain that has pitted celebrities against journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s “News of the World” has taken a disturbing turn. The Guardian reports that along with tapping into the phones of Prince William and Sienna Miller, employees of the British tabloid hacked into the phone of 13-year-old Milly Dowler who went missing in 2002, and was later murdered. While in her phone system, the hackers allegedly deleted some of her messages, giving her family false hope she was still alive and potentially damaging police efforts to find her.

The new allegations center on the controversial News of the World tabloid, which has already seen a number of its journalists arrested for breaking into the cell phone voicemail systems of celebrities, sports figures and royal aides. The newspaper has admitted wrongdoing in those cases and made financial settlements with some of its victims, including actress Sienna Miller.

The newspaper is now accused of hacking into Dowler’s voicemail and deleting several messages on her cell phone, giving her parents false hope that she was alive as well as potentially damaging the police effort to find her.