Liverpool pay City £1 million in "spy" settlement for hacking - biggest PL scandal

[BAB.DAB]

Hackers and Coachwreckers FC will get an all-clean-as-Mané's-tackles but I suspect the perpetrators will have their bollocks hoisted and clamped between those Liver birds' beaks.

That's exactly what I think!

 

[Mike Cledford]

True enough but don't worry about it. If City have the evidence then the loaded gun is in our hands this time.

If nothing else Merseyside cries of "cheats" have just died in their throats.

 

[M18CTID]

I wouldn't normally debase myself on here by posting a link to a Manchester United fan site and urging people to click on it, but the mention of Sachin Nakrani makes me want to share this: http://therepublikofmancunia.com/guardian-journo-will-regret-starting-battle-with-united-fans/

I ask for forgiveness for the fact that I find the dirty feeling of viewing the site in question well worth it given what the page in question reveals about old Sachin.

I and others took great delight in reminding Nakrani of this on Twitter in the wake of Liverpool's CL win last season when he posted a pic of himself with a few mates in Madrid and tried to goad blues into a reaction with a caption along the lines of winning it 6 times and nobody was getting battered in the streets. Needless to say, he didn't respond to anyone who posted links to the RoM site. And as much as I think RoM crosses the line on occasions, I think they got this particular issue spot on. If journalists are going to tell blatant lies about football clubs and moreso football fans, then there will be a retaliation.

 

[cookster]

The method of hacking that LFC might have used here could be considered in the world of IT as one of the least damning. Granted password hacking can be done in various ways, but the easiest way is when not so smart users start using passwords that are way to predictable. Immagine a container filled to the brimm with gold bars secured by the simplest of slots and having the key under the floormat below it. There is a point where one can argue that "someone is asking to be robbed". Would you really punish a thief so much for stealing a diamond ferrari when the doors was left open and the keys left upon the dash?

In fact, from my pov i kinda "grant it" to "hackers" who get in by simply guessing the login and password right. It takes a certain fine skill of the one to do it, or the total lack of caution of the victim to propperly secure it.

That said, there are various ways of password hacking that are far less innocent. In such cases the punishment should be way harder:

-Brute force password hacking: This is a form of hacking where one uses software code to run trough potentially "almost every possible combination of login/password". This can take litteraly billions of attempts before you get a combination that works, but the code might run pretty fast trough those attempts. Granted, even with the speed of a program such efforts can take days and should be noticable to any network administrator that has his security set up right. This form of password hacking is quite different from the former as it takes a very concerted planned effort in contrast to the former where one can "just stumble on the gold".

-Bribery: Getting someone on the inside to facilitate acces for you is a often employed technique in the world of hacking. Again something that should warrent a bigger punishment.

Eh? I think it's already established that the Ex. City employees were using passwords of colleagues still working at City.

 

[FlemishDuck]

Eh? I think it's already established that the Ex. City employees were using passwords of colleagues still working at City.

I checked i short on this story but couldn't find the technical details of how they did it, so thx for the info. Yes, in that case i'd consider it relativly light. Well depends how they exactly got the passwords of their colleagues afcourse.

 

[Mike Cledford]

Another day gone wi

True enough but don't worry about it. If City have the evidence then the loaded gun is in our hands this time.

If nothing else Merseyside cries of "cheats" have just died in their throats.

Another day passing with this crime being totally ignored suggests that cheating is also widespread in the media.

 

[George Hannah]

Eh? I think it's already established that the Ex. City employees were using passwords of colleagues still working at City.

I think this floating poster has been fed too much bread, he has an inflated idea of the noise of his quacks.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Nakrani is not and never has been Sports Editor at the Grauniad. He is described as a writer and an editor which almost certainly means sub editing sports feature copy from freelancers.
The Football Editor is, or was Martin Christenson and Will Woodward is Head of Sport. Incidentally Jonathan Liew joins them next week,. which should do nothing to redress the bias.

Liew? Oh terrific. He does a line in sanctimonious piety. Don't think he's aligned to any club particularly. I've never really seen why he is rated so highly.

 

[Blue Llama]

I wouldn't normally debase myself on here by posting a link to a Manchester United fan site and urging people to click on it, but the mention of Sachin Nakrani makes me want to share this: http://therepublikofmancunia.com/guardian-journo-will-regret-starting-battle-with-united-fans/

I ask for forgiveness for the fact that I find the dirty feeling of viewing the site in question well worth it given what the page in question reveals about old Sachin.

Just shows how low the bar is now set for a job in journalism. Some years ago but obviously in our digital age a photo journalist was sacked by his paper because he photoshopped one of his sports pictures. It wasn't a major change just a cosmetic one because they felt it improved the composition. However journalism used to be a Record of events and modifying the Record in any way was a lie. How times change, the Guardian reporters of old must be spinning in their graves.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Another day gone wi


Another day passing with this crime being totally ignored suggests that cheating is also widespread in the media.

I'm sure there is an hour long segment being lined up for MNF as we speak for spit the dog to apologise / but not apologise for it a bit like he did over the Suarez Evra issue..........