Chef the facts are well known at this point. The only dispute at this point is how high up the food chain the wrong doing goes.
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The police had seized files from Mulcaire’s home in 2006 that contained several thousand mobile phone numbers of potential hacking victims and 91 mobile phone PIN codes. Scotland Yard even had a recording of Mulcaire walking one journalist — who may have worked at yet another tabloid — step by step through the hacking of a soccer official’s voice mail, according to a copy of the tape. But Scotland Yard focused almost exclusively on the royals case, which culminated with the imprisonment of Mulcaire and Goodman.
To see more of the details on how it was done:
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?pagewanted=all
I am not going to debate how it happened as nobody really disputes it happened at this point including News Corp the only real dispute is did management know about it. At this point some members of the upper management have been arrested.
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Originally posted by: chefantwon
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Originally posted by: malibber
It's not trial and error every major cell phone maker put default passwords into their cell phone. They simply looked for that celebrity's cell phone maker and inserted the default password and they had access to their voice mails. They were retrieving any message that was available to them including the ones that hadn't even been listened to yet by the rightful owner. Indeed that is what fouled up the disappearance investigation of the 13 year old girl. The authorities and the girl's parents thought she had simply ran away because she was retrieving her voice mails they left for her.
In order to do that they need the phone numbers. Cell numbers are typically unlisted and your going to have to pay to get them. (I screen all of my calls, any number I don't reconize gets looked up)
Once you get the cell numbers, the phone has to have the service as to check the voicemail from another phone. (you can turn on/off this function)
Messages are only stored for a specific time frame (verizon is 90 days) then you have to get it from the phone company unless they are purged/deleted.
In any case SOMEBODY is doing these functions (I.E. a human being) and that person/persons was told to do it from someone. A big boss NEVER gives direct orders to do anything illegal, it is ALWAYS an underling that interpets and then acts upon a perceived order. In any case, where are these people?
