I hate the fact that they deem this "hacking"..Most peoples concept of hacking is phone bugging and listening in on convos.. Which it is far from.. This is simply going onto the remote answerphone number, putting in the default pin as most people cba to change it and boom your in..
On a side note again, to listen in on a phone conversation on a mobile network is epically hard, the equipment needed to crack the algorithms are pretty awesome. Its not like the old tapping of the line with analog signals...
nevertheless it is still a massive invasion of privacy... they were deleting messages off Milly Dowler's phone when she went missing when her inbox was full.. so that they could listen to further recordings from subsequent phone calls. Milly's family and the police thought that it was Milly accessing her phone.
The Police would have known who, and where her phone was accessed from! this is going to drop the Police in the sh!t!
Thom
yeah... but they were being paid off weren't they?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14065599
Thats the point, as part of the ongoing legit investigation, into Milly Dowler, the Police would have discovered that elsewhere in the police force, someone was accessing the voicemail, and/or a third party was involved, corrupt officers or not! the investigating team
could have blown the whistle years ago
Thom
