So the news this week is filled with ever-changing horror about how various reporters in the Murdoch’s News Corp. “hacked” into the cell phone voice mail accounts of prominent Britons. How did News of The World reporters actually hack cell phones and should you be concerned that it could happen to you?
Questions abound about News Corp. and journalistic ethics. The media punditry on the Web is having a field day going after Rupert Murdoch and his son James and the News Corp. empire and the British Parliament is making them testify today concerning exactly what happened at NoW. Outside of the circus that News Corp. has become in the last week, phone-hacking is an alarming issue, no matter who has committed the crime. Turns out, it is not that hard to do.
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