<story><title>Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speckledjim</author><text>Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.&lt;p&gt;It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.&lt;p&gt;Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&amp;#62; While some of the &quot;hacking&quot; was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set...&lt;p&gt;Taking stuff from my house is still robbery even if I left the front door open.</text></item><item><author>dspillett</author><text>While some of the &quot;hacking&quot; was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set (though most instances would have involved at least caller-id spoofing), it will hopefully (yeah, right, says the cynic in me) make the tabloid rags more careful about overstepping their bounds in future.&lt;p&gt;The scandal, which blew up massively again after evidence was presented of them interfering with a missing-persons/murder enquiry and has only got worse after evidence that the families of bombing victims and those injured/killed in overseas conflicts were also subject to similar invasion of privacy, has caused significant activity in government and a large amount of embarrassment for News International - possibly to the point of threatening their attempt to buy the rest of Sky.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many more phone and email hacking/monitoring scandals, involving the media or other organisations, will drop out of the woodwork following (or during the investigation of) this one...&lt;p&gt;edit: removed the quotes from &quot;news&quot;paper in the title. A tad hypocritical of me to editorialise like that while taking shots at a tabloid!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>This is totally besides the point. He was simply responding to the notion that the ease of the act mitigated the severity.</text></comment>
<story><title>Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.</title><url>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>speckledjim</author><text>Not a great analogy. Nothing was taken.&lt;p&gt;It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.&lt;p&gt;Maybe an invasion of privacy, but not theft.</text></item><item><author>ceejayoz</author><text>&amp;#62; While some of the &quot;hacking&quot; was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set...&lt;p&gt;Taking stuff from my house is still robbery even if I left the front door open.</text></item><item><author>dspillett</author><text>While some of the &quot;hacking&quot; was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set (though most instances would have involved at least caller-id spoofing), it will hopefully (yeah, right, says the cynic in me) make the tabloid rags more careful about overstepping their bounds in future.&lt;p&gt;The scandal, which blew up massively again after evidence was presented of them interfering with a missing-persons/murder enquiry and has only got worse after evidence that the families of bombing victims and those injured/killed in overseas conflicts were also subject to similar invasion of privacy, has caused significant activity in government and a large amount of embarrassment for News International - possibly to the point of threatening their attempt to buy the rest of Sky.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many more phone and email hacking/monitoring scandals, involving the media or other organisations, will drop out of the woodwork following (or during the investigation of) this one...&lt;p&gt;edit: removed the quotes from &quot;news&quot;paper in the title. A tad hypocritical of me to editorialise like that while taking shots at a tabloid!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pavel_lishin</author><text>&amp;#62; It would be more accurate to say that you left your curtains open, and someone took a picture of the inside of your house through the windows.&lt;p&gt;And if I was naked at the time, and if they then sold those pictures of me, I&apos;m fairly certain it would be a crime.</text></comment>