Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 12, 2011
The difference in the reactions to hacktivists on one side and the hacks on the other has been striking. The activities of Anonymous and the rest have been characterised as “cyber attacks”, threats to national security. NATO representatives have called for such groups to be infiltrated and persecuted. The response to the News International scandal [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 12, 2011
“The reported hacking by News Corporation newspapers against a range of individuals—including children—is offensive and a serious breach of journalistic ethics,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “This raises serious questions about whether the company has broken U.S. law, and I encourage the appropriate agencies to investigate to ensure that Americans have not had their privacy [...]
Posted by: Jayme Johnson on: July 12, 2011
From the moment allegations first emerged that the News of the World had hacked into the cell phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, Cameron has been on the defensive. He has repeatedly been forced to answer questions about his ties to Andy Coulson, his former communications director and a one-time News of the World editor [...]
