Ah! Found it: although Yates told the House he had the mobile operators inform the hacked, and named Vodafone and Orange, he didn’t. Specifically, Orange identified about 45 victims but didn’t tell anyone. Vodafone identified 40 and only told a few who were considered VIPs. T-Mobile UK claims not to have found any. 3UK isn’t…
Read More Who’s got the logs?Peter Oborne‘s piece on post-Murdoch Britain is interesting, although mostly for the sheer otherness of his thinking. He’s at least got the good sense or moral minima required to end up on the right side of the debate, but he gets there through some truly odd reasoning. Can anyone remember even one instance when any…
Read More the giant squid meets the criminal octopus as the last Tory sings his swan songThis blog raised the question of Coulson’s vetting. It demanded that Dick Fedorcio be called in. It demanded an audit of telecoms intercept logs. So here’s another question. A timetable for defence vetting processes can be found here. A request for developed vetting, i.e. a top secret clearance, or what Andy Coulson was meant to…
Read More trumpetI thought I’d put together a list of things that upshot from the Murdoch hearings and immediately afterwards. NI was still paying Mulcaire Yates was told not to tell Cameron by Ed Llewellyn James Murdoch says it was all others’ fault, i.e. Hinton and Brooks Rebekah Brooks says George Osborne recommended Coulson 10 out of…
Read More he’s making a list, he’s checking it twice…I expect there’s going to be a hell of a lot of ink spilled in the next few months about different schemes for “regulating the press”, how the very idea is an abomination and this has nothing to do with my column in some Murdoch rag, how this outrageous behaviour makes it utterly necessary for…
Read More against the PCC, for the Competition CommissionDick Fedorcio is taking a little trip to Westminster to be quizzed. By Keith Vaz’s committee. How times change – Keith Vaz as the standard bearer of public integrity. It’s got to be more convincing to get your second chance after 10 years in the wilderness though. Meanwhile, has anyone else noticed that the “#AskEdM”…
Read More Vaz discovers the networkDick Fedorcio is taking a little trip to Westminster to be quizzed. By Keith Vaz’s committee. How times change – Keith Vaz as the standard bearer of public integrity. It’s got to be more convincing to get your second chance after 10 years in the wilderness though. Meanwhile, has anyone else noticed that the “#AskEdM”…
Read More Vaz discovers the networkLet’s talk sheep dip. No, not drinking the stuff. Spooks have another couple of uses for the word. One means to fix the admin when you borrow people or equipment from the real world. Another, and the one we’re interested in, is to arrange things so it’s not obvious to other people how you got…
Read More how to clean out a sheep dipAm I right in thinking that Andy Hayman’s testimony yesterday fingered Met press chief Dick Fedorcio? Hayman admitted he’d regularly had dinner with News International executives while he was meant to be investigating them. He mentioned that he had done this in the company of the head of communications of the Met, presumably with his…
Read More a city wired for soundFMCNL. We loves you. Rupert Murdoch arrived this morning at London Luton with Gulfstream G550 tail nr N89NC at 09:25 UTC. It would be improper, I think, if N89NC was to depart again if there was any doubt at all as to who was on board. We don’t know how many other people involved, other…
Read More watch the skies, or rather, the airports