The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread

"The British politicians now bemoaning media influence over politics are also the same statesmen who have long coveted media support."

logic.ppt

And how the WSJ will trumpet this:

9.26pm: Standard and Poor's have put News Corp on negative credit watch, according to the AFP news agency.

What time does it kick off tomorrow?

http://www.dwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/schadenfreude.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14194623

Hmm.

10.00pm: Three Police officers carrying cameras and wearing white forensic suits arrived a short time ago at Sean Hoare's flat in Watford.
Fifteen minutes earlier, at about 9.15pm, a police van marked "Scientific Services Unit" pulled up at the address, a block of flats that the journalist moved into in November 2009.
The Press Association reports that two officers emerged carrying evidence bags, clipboards, torches and laptop-style bags and entered the building.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaow

Nothing suspicious here obviously.

Fuck 'UK end of season finale', it's getting more like '24' end of season finale.

One of the more ridiculous later seasons, too.

Britain, you really have the best scandals ever.

My mom has not fallen for the dismissal of the story a la Fox and is actually going to watch the Parliamentary hearing, even if she has to go to C-SPAN. I really hope this is her big Helen Keller moment with this shit. OTOH: "Who's the redhead? Is sex involved?"

the hackers hacked:

http://whois.domaintools.com/new-times.co.uk

http://www.new-times.co.uk/sun/

now thesun.co.uk is redirecting to the hacked page.

http://twitter.com/#!/anonymouSabu/status/93062692327264256

omg @ that hack

wow!

I didn't know he had a famous topiary garden!

http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/s/sabu/23.jpg

this is awesome!

I know newscorp people on fb who were all like 'uuuh not dead, hacker fail' and the links they posted are redirecting to the hack.

fucking hell ed miliband is a robot

Looks like the AnonymouSabu twitter account is going even further (no idea if what they are posting is actually real)

What do those numbers do though?

This is absolutely nuts in a predictable "what zeitgeisty infosec trope hasn't turned up yet?" way.

xpost
Think it's a cryptographic key to store the password?

Yes... The password hashes and salts are needed to decrypt the passwords.. Using these details the passwords could be cracked in seconds...

The Sun homepage thesun.co.uk now redirects to the LulzSec twitter page

this is all just spiffy

End of season now feels too small, somehow...

SABU

i seriously would never have imagined that the parly grilling tomorrow would end up feeling like a sideshow

This is crazy. I've got to interview someone discussed on this thread tomorrow - musician - first thing and I know we are going to spend half of it not talking about anything but this.

Waking up is brilliant these days. I need to take a day off just to work through the past few hours.

11.37pm: A News International spokeswoman has confirmed to the Press Association that the company was "aware" of what was happening, but made no further comment.

What else could be said, anyway? "Uh, yeah, we're fucked."

xp wooooow

This is crazy. I've got to interview someone discussed on this thread tomorrow - musician

Say hi to Mr. Michael for us!

Via twitter:

PaulLewis

I've been at Sean Hoare's house. Police/ambulance there 11am-3pm. Then nothing. Story breaks. Forensics arrive 9pm.

Hahaha Ned, unlike GM, this interviewee has never had a homosexual experience.

Say hi to William Hague for us!

looool

i mean just in the last 24 hours there's been

- the supposed suicide of a key whistleblower
- a mysterious bag with computer and files in it found near rebekah brooks' house
- hackers who claim to have snaffled all NOTW and the Sun's emails

in the 24 hrs before that there was rebekah brooks' arrest and the chief of scotland yard's resignation. this is starting to make "house of cards" look unimaginative

BTW if this were happening to any other news org the Post would have NEWS CORPSE for tomorrow's HL.

i will now admit that this may actually be somewhat of a big deal

i mean just in the last 24 hours there's been

- the supposed suicide of a key whistleblower
- a mysterious bag with computer and files in it found near rebekah brooks' house
- hackers who claim to have snaffled all NOTW and the Sun's emails

in the 24 hrs before that there was rebekah brooks' arrest and the chief of scotland yard's resignation. this is starting to make "house of cards" look unimaginative

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 08:46 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol and you left off John Yates

xp i may concur.

ned t you are making me feel bad with that display name

- the supposed suicide of a key whistleblower

wait who has suggested it was suicide?

Widely reported as "not suspicious" until just recently.

just a whistleblower killing self after scandal breaks nbd

suicide or murder aren't the only options! he had a long history of heavy drinking and drug use and nick davies recounted this:

In the end, his body would not take it any more. He said he started to have fits, that his liver was in such a terrible state that a doctor told him he must be dead.

quite prepared to believe he was murdered, especially as the news of the world private detective jonathan rees, who was accused of killing a guy with an axe, is still at large, but there are reasons to believe this guy was ready to go at any time.