Clive Goodman

Not suprisingly the Clive Goodman case is getting a lot of coverage in the media,Michael White writting in Guardian Media

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/comment/0,,1960724,00.html

reminds us that David Blunkett has intimated that he had been bugged during the controversy over his second resignation

And the news that

"The Sun editor, Rebekah Wade, was a victim of the mobile phone sting that saw two men plead guilty to charges of unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages at the Old Bailey today.
Ms Wade's mobile phone messages were accessed by former AFC Wimbledon footballer Glenn Mulcaire."

may bring a wray smile to some.

In the leader in the same paper,some food for thought

"The truth seems to be that most newsrooms employ journalists who use cut-outs to bug phones and obtain phone records, as well as other supposedly secure details. If there is a genuine public interest, that is defensible. The suspicion is that gossip is a more common driver of this trade. When thinking about proposals for a centralised NHS computer, it is as well to ask how happy any of us would be for private investigators to be hacking their way into it on behalf of their Fleet Street, or Wapping, paymasters. On present form, they will."