*It's interesting to see that basic, good-old-fashioned phone-phreaking is now so ingrained in media and politics that it can perturb G7 governments.
*One has to wonder how much of this phone-snooping activity is going on. My surmise is that it's an entire British demimonde. There's just, in a word, lots of it. Britain is an exceedingly wiretap- and surveillance-friendly society. There's just no way that couldn't be privatized and bent to the immediate ends of media moguls and political leaders.
*The Guardian is making some noise about the mess, but most British media outlets serenely ignore it. Probably because there's, as yet, no sexy intern, famous actress, pretty heiress, or political call-girl involved. Privacy violation scandals just don't work as general media fodder unless there's a bedroom window someplace.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/22/andy-coulson-resignation-hacked-off
*Don't even get me started about Italian bunga-bunga girls and their judicially wiretapped cellphones. I'm in Turin right now, and I can't even step into the street without tripping over 'em.
