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#NotW: ‘hacking’ Liz Hurley
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 at
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Word reaches me of potentially “serious consequences” for Rupert Murdoch and his empire should anyone turn up evidence of ‘hacking’ aimed at American citizens.
Will Steve Bing do?
See the closing paragraphs on this story, and see if you can guess at the likely source:
Actually, I suspect almost this entire story is based on intercepted phone/text messages. What kind of friend would blab to a tabloid about a hospital visit and reward a stalker with this kind of attention?
Not this one, that’s for sure:
Hugh Grant: How I exposed hacking
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about 10 months ago
Makes you think about any story attributed to "pals" now
about 10 months ago
Absolutely. News of the World might've got away with it indefinitely if they didn't get so greedy/stupid as to publish stories that could only have one possible source.