No hiding place for fly tippers
Roland Perry
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:58:19 +0000
In article <47A6176A.3113.250E465@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>> Agreed. Those organisations probably *don't* want to become known as
>> "the mobile phone company that give cellsite data to anyone who
>> illegally demanded it".
>
>The bods concerned work for the likes of the Egg Marketing Board.
In that case it's even simpler: they can ask for things they aren't
entitled to until they are blue in the face.
>Given the gushing nature of the Huttons' reports it is not clear if
>there has been *any* action taken against any of these bods for their
>transgessions.
Do you any particular incident in mind, where comms data was obtained
fraudulently?
In the only case I can recall, Anthony Kelly and Andrew Pickering were
given suspended jail sentences and sacked by BT. But that wasn't data
being blagged by the police, of course. Quite the opposite.
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Roland Perry