[LINK] Keeping our web browsing safe from News International

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 18/07/11 16:22, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 18/07/2011 10:33 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> ...
>>> ps: How much bigger would the News-of-the-World scandal be if the
>>> journalists hacked into on-line accounts, not just phone messages ...
>> ...
>> What makes you think they didn't?
> 
> Yes, it turns out Scotland Yard has "Operation Tuleta" underway to see 
> if News International paid for hacking of computer accounts: 
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8642649/Police-investigate-new-computer-hacking-claims-linked-to-News-International.html
> 
> It would be prudent to check if this was happening in Australia.
> 
> 
...another Perspective (complete with privacy artefact):
> Don't Go, Mr. Murdoch!
> Why the World Needs the Tabloid King
> 
> A Commentary by Jan Fleischhauer
> The hacking scandal at British newspaper News of the World confirms many of the left's worst suspicions about the tabloids. But those who look down on the yellow press are actually contemptuous of the very people who make these papers big and powerful.
> Info
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> 
> The easiest solution would be that of simply banning tabloids. No more newspapers that calculate for their readers exactly what saving the euro will cost them or break down the expense of recurring welfare fraud. No headlines decrying green energy, lax criminal sentences or impudent foreigners. Instead, we could just have well-meaning commentaries about why we should help out the Greeks and further indebt ourselves by expanding our social system.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,775315,00.html

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