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Or for unscrupulous journalists. The recent phone hacking scandal proved that there's few lengths some papers will go to in search of a juicy story. I wonder
by mattkevan 11y ago
Or for unscrupulous journalists.
The recent phone hacking scandal proved that there's few lengths some papers will go to in search of a juicy story.
I wonder how much they'd have to give to some disenfranchised ISP employee to get a couple of years worth of [insert famous name]'s browsing history.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoI used to work at British Telecom and they where very hot on this issue. BT Security do not fuck about when they investigate this sort of crime. Developers with wide access to data had to be positively vetted to TS level. A few years ago there was a contract killer that suborned BT employees to find the address of some one in the witness protection schemes parents new address and killed them. The people concerned are doing 10-20 years for conspiracy.
- abawany 11y agoThat sounds good but I hope the disparity of the effect and punishment is obvious: victims lost their lives because data existed that probably should not have been collected and the people responsible for the leak are alive and will be free in 10-20 years.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoYou can't run a phone company without customer information or knowing where all your plant is :-) This was the standard Billing Data not the secret squrel side of the biz.