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'News of The World' scrapped - News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB


Francis Coquelin

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''Don't worry over-much about the journalists who've lost their jobs on the News of the World - I read somewhere that the unemployed live the life of Reilly, thousands of pounds in benefits, free houses, work on the side.........''

- George Galloway MP

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in the end murdock is going to purchase bskyb and nothing will happen to him... he has too much influential power over the world... different government parties try to approach him for help to win campaigns so that they are able to stay in power... David cameron being one and also Tony blair being another...

Even if he has authorized the hacking of 9/11 victims phones he has so much power that someone involved in those articles at the time would end up taking the wrap and probably getting paid to keep quite.

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in the end murdock is going to purchase bskyb and nothing will happen to him... he has too much influential power over the world... different government parties try to approach him for help to win campaigns so that they are able to stay in power... David cameron being one and also Tony blair being another...

Even if he has authorized the hacking of 9/11 victims phones he has so much power that someone involved in those articles at the time would end up taking the wrap and probably getting paid to keep quite.

Milliband has burned his bridges with Murdoch already by saying he has too much influence and Cameron has had to follow suit otherwise he'd look an ever bigger c*nt than he already does.

On the 9/11 thing there is no way his reputation could recover from that imo, American patriotism is crazy.

People in both America and Britain that have played ball with Murdoch have done so reluctantly, Cameron didn't want to align himself with Murdoch at first but was convinced by other members of the party it was the smart move.

I read an article the other day that outlined the trade off between Cameron and Murdoch.

Cameron has been bemoaning the role of QUANGOS for time and stated he'd like to get rid of a lot of them with OFCOM being one of them.

Murdoch has wanted to get rid of OFCOM for a long time as it would allow him to setup a channel similar to Fox News over here.

With the proposed takeover of BskyB and no OFCOM Murdoch would be able to drastically reduce the influence of the BBC by crippling them financially.

This whole situation presents the UK with a massive opportunity to drastically reduce Murdoch's influence through the introduction of a regulated press and by referring the BSkyB takeover to the Competitions Commission instead of allowing the Conservatives to approve it on the basis of promises made by News International.

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killer is how they hacked the vocie mail is simples only a plus up to 050 for the pin and then ur set use to hack voice mails on a regs back in the day when i was a youth the pin is a standard 1210 if u dont change ur pin its ur own fault think my current pin is still 1210 (for t mobile hackers)

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They didn't have default pins, Sienna Miller was changing hers daily but it was still getting hacked.

They had people at all the mobile networks bar o2 who were giving them info.

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Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family's medical records.

There is also evidence that a private investigator used a serving police officer to trawl the police national computer for information about him.

That investigator also targeted another Labour MP who was the subject of hostile inquiries by the News of the World, but it has not confirmed whether News International was specifically involved in trawling police computers for information on Brown.

Separately, Brown's tax paperwork was taken from his accountant's office apparently by hacking into the firm's computer. This was passed to another newspaper.

Brown was targeted during a period of more than 10 years, both as chancellor of the exchequer and as prime minister. Some of the activity clearly was illegal. Other incidents breached his privacy but not the law. An investigation by the Guardian has found that:

• Scotland Yard has discovered references to both Brown and his wife, Sarah, in paperwork seized from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who specialised in phone hacking for the News of the World

• Abbey National bank found evidence suggestion that a "blagger" acting for the Sunday Times on six occasions posed as Brown and gained details from his account,

• Brown's London lawyers, Allen & Overy, were tricked into handing over details from his file by a conman working for the Sunday Times

• Details from his infant son's medical records were obtained by the Sun, who published a story about the child's serious illness.

Scotland Yard recently wrote separately to Brown and to his wife to tell them that their details had been found in evidence collected by Operation Weeting, the special inquiry into phone hacking at the News of the World. It is believed that this refers to handwritten notes kept by Mulcaire, which were seized by police in August 2006 and never previously investigated. Brown last year asked Scotland Yard if there was evidence that he had been targeted by the private investigator and was told there was none.

Journalists who have worked at News International say they believe that Brown's personal bank account was accessed on several occasions when he was chancellor of the exchequer. An internal inquiry by Abbey National's fraud department found that during January 2000, somebody acting on behalf of the Sunday Times contacted their Bradford call centre six times, posing as Brown, and succeeded in extracting details from his account.

Abbey National's senior lawyer sent a summary of their findings to the editor of the Sunday Times, John Witherow, concluding: "On the basis of these facts and inquiries, I am drawn to the conclusion that someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception."

Abbey National were not able to identify the bogus caller who tricked their staff. It is a matter of public record that a Sunday Times reporter frequently used the services of a former actor, John Ford, who specialised in "blagging" confidential data from banks, phone companies and the Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue & Customs).

Key points from the latest Guardian article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/11/phone-hacking-news-international-gordon-brown

The Times and now the Sun involved, there's more to come as well.

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Why do you get so anal about this sh*t like you're f*ck*ng King Hacker?

They accessed info illegally using machines, that's hacking in my books

This aint the f*ck*ng Matrix bruh

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