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Its hardly “horrific”. Phone hacking isn’t even illegal in the UK.

Oh that's just silly.

It would certainly be news to Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, who both plead guilty to illegally intercepting phone messages and spent time in prison for the crime.

And the illegality is hardly the horrific part. It's ethically reprehensible.

Would you object to MSNBC or the NY Times intercepting your private phone messages?

[Deb]

They went to prison for lying to police and conspiracy.

MSNBC and the NYT have nothing to do with anything. If its so "horrific" why isn't it illegal? Since all the tabs have been doing it for years, how is it that its just now a "scandal". Piers Morgan used "reporters" who did it when he was editor of the Sun and the Daily Mail and The News of the World. Its in his book. Why isn't he being battered and dragged thru the streets of London?

Because this was a story that surfaced and was investigated years ago. The Guardian, backed by the UK leftists gave it new life in order to destroy Murdock.

[Lazamataz]

I think they didn't hack in that manner. See, the play that the UK media took was to use the term 'hack' without explaining it. When the usual guy hears hack, he thinks "intercepting or breaking into a secure network for nefarious purposes, usually financial."

In this case, if I am not mistaken, they got a second hand old phone that some politics or media star owned. I believe, and i could be wrong, that the so-called 'hacking' consisted of beating the password on a product that THEY NOW OWNED and that they had the right to do with as they wished. This isn't truly hacking, but you know how the media blurs terms on purpose.