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Heather Mills claims Mirror journalist admitted phone hacking

04
Aug
2011

The BBC Newsnight programme has another scoop on its hands, by broadcasting a claim by Heather Mills, the former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, that a journalist hacked into voicemails left by the ex-Beatle on her mobile phone. What’s interesting is that Mills claims that the journalist who admitted the hacking to her was a […]

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LulzSec scam discovered on Facebook – but it’s not what you think

22
Jun
2011

Earlier today, a member of the British press contacted me asking if I had any photographs of the arrest of a suspected hacker in Wickford, Essex. Quite why I, based in Oxford (which is about a 100 mile drive from where the man was arrested), would have photos of late-night goings-in in Essex wasn’t really […]

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Like FireSheep? You Will Love FireTweet!

11
Jun
2011

OK, if some unimaginative journalist and/or editor can call a pair of bulging briefs “Weinergate” I can call this Twitter App “FireTweet”. Like Firesheep, Royal Test (FireTweet) is an attempt to demonstrate a privacy problem. Techcrunch reported this story and I have verified the privacy issue. Despite allegedly being unable to read private messages, applications […]

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