Phone hacking

[Gundermann]

Piers knew.

 

Not down there with hacking a dead schoolgirl's phone like the Scum did but quite nice to see Piers Morgan in soapy bubble.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-67707931

[Gundermann]

Update on Piers.

 

[Victorian]

Criminal collaring for Piers plz.  Make it happen.

[I P Knightley]

Has he bleated out a response?

 

I'm with you, Vic. I'd very much like to see him spend some time in chokey but I'm not sure whether today's judgement will lead to subsequent prosecution. 

[Bindy Badgy]

Quote

 

In a summary of his 386-page ruling, High Court judge Mr Justice Fancourt concluded phone hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) had continued "even to some extent" during the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.

 

Labour peer Baroness Chakrabarti advised the 2011 inquiry, which looked at the practices and ethics of the British press in the wake of the now-defunct News of the World phone hacking scandal.

 

She told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that the findings of Prince Harry's cases were "totally disgraceful".

 

"These things only work if there is an element of genuine cooperation by those involved and people don't lie," she said.

 

"Now we see the senior executives and it would seem Mr [Piers] Morgan - who is not normally a shy man but doesn't want to speak to you today - they lied to the Leveson Inquiry and that is stomach-churning."

 

As we reported earlier, part of the judge's ruling today was that Morgan knew about phone hacking - and was involved - when he was editor of the Daily Mirror. The TV presenter is yet to respond or make a statement.

 

 

[Mikey1874]

1 hour ago, Victorian said:

Criminal collaring for Piers plz.  Make it happen.

 

A long time ago when it was obvious, but he denied it, it seemed clear he was being protected by some very senior people. 

[SectionDJambo]

Just now, Mikey1874 said:

 

A long time ago when it was obvious, but he denied it, it seemed clear he was being protected by some very senior people. 

It appears that he lied on oath at the public inquiry into phone hacking. The police might take a dim view of that and other legal indiscretions.

It becomes clear why he’s been on a mission, backed up by his media employers to constantly try to discredit Harry.
 It’s been a bit of an open secret that he was heavily involved in phone hacking. Ian Hislop has been saying for years that he should have been jailed. 

[Victorian]

Piers Morgan

Paula Vennels

Michelle Mone

Doug Barrowman

 

Hoy the lot in the same cell.  They can have a nice dinner party and bridge match every night.

[Cade]

Hopefully he'll spend a few years in a prison cell having a big one slammed up his farter.

[highlandjambo3]

Very pleased that self entitles smug p***k has been called out…..major denial coming though but, all will be revealed.

[Tommy Brown]

Piers Morgan statement is well worth watching. Doesn't miss anyone.

 

He is now being demolished on BBC news by Evan Harris of "Hacked off".

 

Popcorn stuff

[Ked]

24 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Piers Morgan

Paula Vennels

Michelle Mone

Doug Barrowman

 

Hoy the lot in the same cell.  They can have a nice dinner party and bridge match every night.

Pigs might fly.

 

[Cade]

And all because Megan brushed off his creepy advances and ghosted him.

 

[Bull's-eye]

28 minutes ago, Victorian said:

Piers Morgan

Paula Vennels

Michelle Mone

Doug Barrowman

 

Hoy the lot in the same cell.  They can have a nice dinner party and bridge match every night.

 

Geez peace.

 

Ive been hacking your Dug n Bone for donkeys.

[Mikey1874]

Here he is

 

 

[Victorian]

1 hour ago, Bull's-eye said:

 

Geez peace.

 

Ive been hacking your Dug n Bone for donkeys.

 

You couldn't hack into a packet of crisps.

[Jambo-Jimbo]

1 hour ago, Tommy Brown said:

Piers Morgan statement is well worth watching. Doesn't miss anyone.

 

He is now being demolished on BBC news by Evan Harris of "Hacked off".

 

Popcorn stuff

 

Just watched it, indeed doesn't miss anyone, especially Harry

 

Popcorn stuff indeed.

[milky_26]

his statement that he has never hacked a phone or told someone to hack a phone is a clever choice of words and is probably true. However what is missing is did he know about people hacking phones rather than him either doing the hacking himself or ordering people to do the hacking?

[Victorian]

5 minutes ago, milky_26 said:

his statement that he has never hacked a phone or told someone to hack a phone is a clever choice of words and is probably true. However what is missing is did he know about people hacking phones rather than him either doing the hacking himself or ordering people to do the hacking?

 

This.  It's a very obvious skirt around the point with evasive words.  

[Bindy Badgy]

Is there a statute of limitations on this? It seems like it all happened a long time ago.

 

Hope there isn't and Morgan is in the shit  

Edited December 15, 2023 by Bindy Badgy

[Joey J J Jr Shabadoo]

1 hour ago, Mikey1874 said:

Here he is

 

 

Morgan says he wasn't asked to appear in court. Apparently, the only witness Mirror Group provided, was a woman who only turned up because there was a court order forcing her to be there.

Edited December 15, 2023 by Joey J J Jr Shabadoo

[Gundermann]

[Cade]

[SectionDJambo]

Piers Morgan is a snake of a man.
Conveniently doesn’t say if he was aware of the phone hacking and supported reporting stories based on it. Just that he didn’t physically hack or ask someone else to.

Uses the old Harry wants to destroy the monarchy story to try to deflect from an independent judge’s opinion of himself as a liar. In the best tradition of his type of journalism, create a bogey man to get the mob onside.

He’s still never explained why he wanted to spend an evening, and maybe even the night, with a young woman he met in a bar when he was already married.

[Beave1874]

1 hour ago, SectionDJambo said:

He’s still never explained why he wanted to spend an evening, and maybe even the night, with a young woman he met in a bar when he was already married

What was this?

Again agree with what has been said on here already, clever use of words. Absolute melt.. Hope he gets his. 

[SectionDJambo]

17 minutes ago, Beave1874 said:

What was this?

Again agree with what has been said on here already, clever use of words. Absolute melt.. Hope he gets his. 

He met Meghan Markel in a bar, a few years ago, and thought he was in. He wasn’t happy when she left him to go see someone else. She had a date with Harry.

He’s was the frog. Harry was the prince.

[Greedy Jambo]

**** Peirs, **** Harry

 

Who cares 

[Cade]

49 minutes ago, Beave1874 said:

What was this?

Again agree with what has been said on here already, clever use of words. Absolute melt.. Hope he gets his. 

He met Megan in a lounge bar a few years ago and tried to arrange a dinner.

She never showed.

His fragile creepy ego couldn't hack it.

He has since devoted his entire life to harassing her in public.

[Doctor FinnBarr]

4 hours ago, milky_26 said:

his statement that he has never hacked a phone or told someone to hack a phone is a clever choice of words and is probably true. However what is missing is did he know about people hacking phones rather than him either doing the hacking himself or ordering people to do the hacking?

 

So the Sun/Mirror/ and others can hack royalty/celebs and mothers of murder victims am I right? Daresay they can hack me as well but how do they do it? I certainly couldn't do it so has the court case came out with any explanation?

Edited December 15, 2023 by Doctor FinnBarr

[Lone Striker]

4 hours ago, milky_26 said:

his statement that he has never hacked a phone or told someone to hack a phone is a clever choice of words and is probably true. However what is missing is did he know about people hacking phones rather than him either doing the hacking himself or ordering people to do the hacking?

Exactly right.    Similar to the fake pics of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner - did he not even consider asking his journos to verify where they were taken and how did the journo get hold of them ?   Now, it appears he never thought of asking his journos how they got these "scoops" on the Royals. 

 

 Or maybe he did ask, and the journo just said "I've got to protect my sources, guv"     

 "Of course. No questions asked, and all that.  Well done, let's  publish this scoop".

 

These editors have friends in high places, as Andy Coulson found to his benefit despite having been implicated in the News of the WOrld phone-hacking scandal - a job working for the PM, until the law caught up with him.  

[Lone Striker]

7 minutes ago, Doctor FinnBarr said:

 

So the Sun/Mirror/ and others can hack royalty/celebs and mothers of murder victims am I right? Daresay they can hack me as well but how do they do it? I certainly couldn't do it so has the court case came out with any explanation?

Apparently hacking is done to the phones of the target's friends to listen to voice mails from the target, to build up a picture of what the target is doing and what juicy gossip they can catch.  No idea how the actual entry to the voicemail box is actually done though - do they just try every 4 digit number until one of them works  ?

 

 

[Gizmo]

10 minutes ago, Lone Striker said:

Apparently hacking is done to the phones of the target's friends to listen to voice mails from the target, to build up a picture of what the target is doing and what juicy gossip they can catch.  No idea how the actual entry to the voicemail box is actually done though - do they just try every 4 digit number until one of them works  ?

 

 

A few quid bunged to a call centre operator and job done. 

[periodictabledancer]

5 hours ago, Mikey1874 said:

Here he is

 

 

"Justice Fancourt also found that senior executives at the publisher - including former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan - were aware of phone hacking taking place.

In a heated statement outside his west London home, Morgan denied ever hacking a phone or asking anyone to hack a phone."

 

The classic "non-denial".

He's denying something he wasn't accused of.  The judge only said Morgan knew what was going on. 

[Doctor FinnBarr]

1 hour ago, Lone Striker said:

Apparently hacking is done to the phones of the target's friends to listen to voice mails from the target, to build up a picture of what the target is doing and what juicy gossip they can catch.  No idea how the actual entry to the voicemail box is actually done though - do they just try every 4 digit number until one of them works  ?

 

 

 

So how do they get the phone numbers of the "targets" friends?

[Bindy Badgy]

10 hours ago, Greedy Jambo said:

**** Peirs, **** Harry

 

Who cares 

 

We absolutely should care. This issue hasn't just affected celebrities. Lots of normal people that don't have the ability to stand up to multi-national buisnesses have been caught up in this.

[Gundermann]

14 hours ago, SectionDJambo said:

Piers Morgan is a snake of a man.
Conveniently doesn’t say if he was aware of the phone hacking and supported reporting stories based on it. Just that he didn’t physically hack or ask someone else to.

Uses the old Harry wants to destroy the monarchy story to try to deflect from an independent judge’s opinion of himself as a liar. In the best tradition of his type of journalism, create a bogey man to get the mob onside.

He’s still never explained why he wanted to spend an evening, and maybe even the night, with a young woman he met in a bar when he was already married.

 

Ha! I knew about Meghan standing him up but didn't know he was married at the time. Thought he just lay on the sofa at home with the company of Mother Palm and her five daughters.

[Spellczech]

17 hours ago, SectionDJambo said:

Piers Morgan is a snake of a man.
Conveniently doesn’t say if he was aware of the phone hacking and supported reporting stories based on it. Just that he didn’t physically hack or ask someone else to.

Uses the old Harry wants to destroy the monarchy story to try to deflect from an independent judge’s opinion of himself as a liar. In the best tradition of his type of journalism, create a bogey man to get the mob onside.

He’s still never explained why he wanted to spend an evening, and maybe even the night, with a young woman he met in a bar when he was already married.

In the same way that Hitler never spoke publicly about the Final Solution...Senior people protect themselves in this way. Look at any company with a failed strategy - either the whole Board will say that it was a joint decision or some patsy will take responsibility and leave with a large Golden parachute...

 

Having said this Harry is about 20 years too late. Now "reality TV" people are served up as cannon fodder for the celebrity scandals because they are mainly complicit as they are so desperate to make a career as "celebrities" without talent...

 

The MSN are not half as powerful as they were 20 years ago, but at the same time editors clearly group together and decide what to print and what not to - An example, it took months and months before a picture emerged of Freddy Flintoff's Top Gear crash facial injuries and there were only ever allusions to them until he emerged in a public capacity to coach a cricket team...

[Mikey1874]

In case people don't realise, News Group (Rupert Murdoch's lot) are settling scores of phone hacking cases just now.

 

 

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

3 hours ago, Mikey1874 said:

In case people don't realise, News Group (Rupert Murdoch's lot) are settling scores of phone hacking cases just now.

 

 

It’s almost a fortnightly occurrence in private eye - reports of new settlements, always with no admission of liability.

 

Like Private Eye always says - Murdoch is paying people loads of money despite doing nothing wrong!

[Gundermann]

😁

 

[XB52]

1 hour ago, Gundermann said:

😁

 

Couldn't  care less about the farce that is the royal family but I love how Harry and Meghan inspire so much bile and hatred from the royalists and racists.

[RobboM]

On 15/12/2023 at 21:46, Lone Striker said:

Apparently hacking is done to the phones of the target's friends to listen to voice mails from the target, to build up a picture of what the target is doing and what juicy gossip they can catch.  No idea how the actual entry to the voicemail box is actually done though - do they just try every 4 digit number until one of them works  ?

 

 

I listened to The News Agent podcast with a journalist who used to do this. Mostly they just used the default or other common number combination passwords, Then they would try birthdays or the name of loved ones spelled out on a phone handset. Otherwise just brute force guesswork.

[Lone Striker]

21 hours ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said:

It’s almost a fortnightly occurrence in private eye - reports of new settlements, always with no admission of liability.

 

Like Private Eye always says - Murdoch is paying people loads of money despite doing nothing wrong!

Ian Hislop reckons Murdoch has set aside hundreds of millions of pounds in order to pay off the complainers before their case goes to court.  

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

1 hour ago, RobboM said:

I listened to The News Agent podcast with a journalist who used to do this. Mostly they just used the default or other common number combination passwords, Then they would try birthdays or the name of loved ones spelled out on a phone handset. Otherwise just brute force guesswork.

Most people never set a voicemail code. Which meant by default, most people’s was 0000. Made it very easy to access

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

Prince Harry ends his libel action against the Mail.

 

Gingerbaws in the mud