No matter how much the press are regulated
some smartarse on the internet will always publish anything and everything and will probably use all the techniques at their disposal (including phone tapping) to uncover whatever they wish.
(Genuinely__Battered, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:04, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Is this a dig at DCI Roota

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:05, Reply)

EH! Chompy's the archivist!
I'm the one who gets a feeling in her water.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:06, Reply)

Your 'water' is still a technique at your disposal.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:07, Reply)

Oh aye. it's always there, Jeff.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

True, but to delete messages and to alter the course of a search for a missing child,
which in turn later affects a murder investigation.
Well, that's hardly finding out what sex toys Sienna Miller's been buying, is it?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:06, Reply)

I didn't read that as Battered saying any of it was a good thing, have I misunderstood?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:07, Reply)

No, I mean he was saying it will always happen.
And I couldn't give a fuck.
But this kind of thing is different from hacking anyone else. This has to be prevented, randomly checked, I don't bleeding know.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Rebekah Wade. Pit of bears.
You know it makes sense. This is how we prevent it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:12, Reply)

People who have such an active disregard for others really should be tortured.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:13, Reply)

"You woke the bears, why did you do that?!"

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

Don't get me wrong - what they did was fucking awful & they should be jailed.
However the same technology that can find out which ladyboy Keith Chegwin has been shagging can also be used to find out more serious stuff and this can then be reported online without fear of repercussion (dependent on where the offending site is hosted).
(Genuinely__Battered, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:09, Reply)

Yeah but that's usually not a big buisiness making large profits from the crimes.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:10, Reply)

this, too.
mostly because arseholes like Assange fail to understand that "free speech" carries a huge responsibility as well as being a right.

*awaits fat-fingered Assange white knighting*
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:06, Reply)

ugiokswr\glh\sd adijsfap'
but i love assange anasd asll the peopole who posr4t5 stuff onm trhe internet!
(Bazongaloid, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:09, Reply)

oh, textbook, sir. Textbook.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:10, Reply)

It's actually quite hard to type in a fat fingered way

(Bazongaloid, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:13, Reply)

Apey?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Assange is a cunt.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 12:15, Reply)