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Police find the smoking handset at NOTW headquarters
THE INVESTIGATION into hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now shuttered newspaper the News of the World (NOTW) has turned up a smoking gun, or rather, mobile phone that was used for a lot of illegal voicemail snooping.
According to the Independent Metropolitan Police detectives working in the Operation Weeting team found the secret mobile phone lurking in the depths of News International's east London headquarters and started poking around in it.
They discovered that the handset was a fixture in the NOTW newsroom and was used to illegally dial into over 1,000 voicemail accounts between 2004 and 2006. The Independent adds that despite News International holding two internal enquiries about the hacking allegations, the organisation was never able to find the phone itself.
Operation Weeting officers will now spend a great deal of time trying to work out who at NOTW hid the handset, but we think that we can all work out why they did.
According to one former NOTW journalist the phone was regularly used and was passed around by staff working on the newsdesk. Its use was shadowy and tightly controlled, according to the report, but we can think of some other things to call it. µ
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These journos are morons. Surely they should have guessed the cops would have the IMEI of the phone... So they *hide* it? WTF?
Have they not seen the shit that's been going on? What phone is worth that? You throw it into a bonfire you idiots!
Next we'll find that they didn't wipe it down, and the cops will find lots of nice interesting prints on it.
now if they could use the phone to tie in the murderer of the people that ratted out Murdoch, that would be good. I wonder who would have wanted to kill them? anyone?