Now obviously, hacking into the phone of a girl who has been abducted is beyond the pale. Hacking into the Prime Ministers' phone to get health information about his child is tacky. But, hacking into Hugh Grant's phone.....well, inquiring minds want to know!
Listening to the BBC, as I do, I have heard almost nothing in the past few days except for the buzz about Rupert Murdoch and his news organizations and their efforts to get a lot of news that is not fit to print via illegal means, i.e. hacking into people's phones.
In the US, everything is personal, so when it was covered here on some PBS show (Talk of the Nation, maybe?) all the conversation was about how people could prevent their own phones from being hacked. Ordinary, un-newsworthy citizens, like you and me were calling really perturbed about this new threat to their "privacy". Are they all having affairs? Or spelling out their passwords in their voice mail messages? Who would want to hack my phone? I can't fathom.... But just to check it out, I figured I better get in there and listen to my VM messages before someone else did! I am relying so much on my cell phone that days can go by without the messages on the house phone being checked.....there they are, just waiting to be hacked.
Mr. Murdoch! take note:
- If Sergei calls Mrs. Draper, he can hear something to his advantage: she will be arriving from the cottage on Wednesday and he can earn some money helping her unload some furniture.
- The milk, donated by Mrs. Mann, is in the refrigerator in the church basement.
- The KIA dealership thanks us for our recent service call.
- Our prescription [drat! No details given!] is ready at Walgreens.
- Our Comcast bill is past due [Woah! That is embarrassing! I admit, I did forget to pay that before we went on vacation.]
It is comforting to know you have no secrets. Except.....well, I really hope no one figures out a way to let the world know the state of my laundry room.
What's on your answering machine fit for the News of the World?
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