Saddened! wrote:
I wish all this 'hacking' stuff would go away. It's not hacking at all. Every mobile phone network has a voicemail service that be accessed using nothing but the phone number. We used to do it all the at University 10 years ago. The aim was to change the greeting to something comedic, but we could have listened to the messages. They've not been hacked by some super -tech criminal like the media make it out to be.
It's easy to break into some houses too, doesn't mean you should do it.
I don't think anyone has made out it to be a super-tech crime. It's been made out to be what it is, a massive invasion of privacy by some irresponsible, gutless, hyprocritical t0sspots.
The press' reaction to being investigated by the police and the Leveson Inquiry shows you all you need to know about vast swathes of that industry.
Saddened wrote:
The pressure over the 'hacking' stuff should have gone on the networks in equal measures to that the press received. And on the 'dead schoolgirl' incident, I don't believe for one second that the police couldn't have found out which number did the deleting of the messages, if they'd bothered to ask.
Why? It was the press doing the hacking not the tv or radio networks.
