The phone-hacking scandal may bring restraint to Britain’s redtop journalists and relief to a few thousand minor celebrities but, for the country’s 59.99 million unfamous people, it will merely make technology a little more irritating.
The phone-hacking scandal may bring restraint to Britain’s redtop journalists and relief to a few thousand minor celebrities but, for the country’s 59.99 million unfamous people, it will merely make technology a little more irritating.
Setting the default password for your mobile voicemail as either 0000 or 1234 wasn’t particularly secure, I know, but for the 99.99 per cent of us not being tailed by stalkers or tabloid journalists, it was at least easy to remember.
Within months, I suspect, every new voicemail account will be secured by some random and instantly forgettable PIN. So, on holiday abroad in 2015, we shall suddenly find we cannot access a vital message telling us that our flight home has been cancelled or that our hotel is being attacked by insurgents.
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