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HP attempted newsroom undercover ops
Only the paranoid survive
Wed Sep 20 2006, 11:48
HEWLETT PACKARD suits discussed the possibility of getting people employed by
news.com and the
Wall Street Journal so they could track down leaks, said the
New York Times.
According to the report, the employees would either be office cleaners or clerks, although whether HP ever managed to infiltrate the newsrooms is unclear.
The weirdly paranoid notion was mentioned in a report to HP's legal department and its "chief ethics officer".
The "chief ethics officer", Kevin Hunsaker, asked the Witchfnder General, Anthony Gentilucci, whether a private dick hired by HP was using "above board" methods to get mobile phone and telephone records.
The New York Times reports Gentilucci as saying he thought it was "on the edge" but "above board". ยต
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I have to concur with the previous comment from "Ray". Martin Lynch, your grammar is atrocious, and your euphemisms and metaphors are incoherent and idiotic.

These personality flaws within you pale in comparison to the outright lying you engage in for most of your article. I have no idea where you obtained most of your information, but I guessing much of it was extracted from your rear end. The pornography industry is nowhere near 12.6 billion dollars. In fact, it is utterly marginal, even next to smaller segments, such as professional and educational publishing. What are your references for the history you've related regarding VHS and Betamax? A dream you once had? Pornography had absolutely nothing to do with the success of VHS.

Martin Lynch, you are a sad, pathetic, and attention-starved man.
I'm a freshmen in college who passed senior English with a B-. Your grammar is f********* horrible. 
If you're a reporter/writer, you should learn to fix your idiotic mistakes. Makes the article hard to read.

[You're banned from reading the INQ. Ed.]