Met Investigating Murdoch Merc Technology To Sink Global Rivals

As Michael Gove emerges as the man of the hour, his former employer faces new pc hacking charges

Govrance of Academia….backed by Newscorp

The Slog: Just over a year ago, we revealed how the hard drive of a former head of security at Murdoch subsidiary NDS showed that the company paid computer hackers to work with its “operational security” unit….aka covert black ops…..to size up competitor weaknesses among pay-TV rivals across Australasia, Europe, and the US. Exaro has today filed a story strongly suggesting that Newscorp did the same in the UK to nobble On Digital.

Just when it looked like the Newscorpers were quietly wheedling their way back into power, evidence is emerging that “this fine man Rupert Murdch who has done so much to revolutionise British media” (Michael Gove) sits atop an organisation that illegally hacked into its biggest digital TV rival. Yet again Exaro is on the ball here, alleging that the technology firm NDS (in which Newscorp had a large stake at the time) used computer hackers to sabotage On Digital, the consortium set up by Carlton and Granada in 1978 to compete in the sector. After several unexplained technical hitches and widespread damaging piracy in its brief life, the Station was renamed ITV Digital, but folded in 2002…..leaving Sky to dominate the scene.

A Carlton insider of the time informs me that “there were always one or more mysterious glitches, but we were too green in those days to put two and two together. But yes, this development is interesting”. Interesting enough, it seems, to open a Met Police investigation, which is now apparently active. No doubt Roop’s close relationship with senior Met officers will bring that to an end in short order, and of course given that Michael Gove is being widely touted now as the new Tory leader once Dave implodes….yes well, you know what I mean. Tentacles, networks, joyous dinners, bribes etc etc.
Major irony in all this is that a young member of Carlton’s PR department around that time was one David Cameron. Cameron was interviewed by Carlton CEO Richard Eyre, and turned down on the grounds that “he was a complete plank”. But then Dave’s wifey Samantha rang her mum, and her mum (a major Carlton shareholder) rang Chairman Philip Green, and, um, Cameron got the job. It’s the Leg Up strategy you see, because we’re all in this together.
Talking of getting legs up or even over, allegedly discreet hack-shagger Michael Gove simply cannot understand why two major newspapers, Dan Hannan, and the Tory Swivel-Eyed tendency are trying to thrust greatness upon him. Michael has tried not referring to Ed Miliband too often [the other lot's leader, nudge-nudge] as “a blancmange in a hurricane”; yet still the Let’s Go with Gove movement is gathering momentum. Mystified as to the enthusiasm, Michael backed into the limelight of the Andrew Marr show recently to support his Leader by saying that, given the chance, he’d vote to leave the EU. Dressed in flowing white robes and insisting that the anchor refer to him as El Govrance at all times, T. E. Gove mistakenly captured some sixteen headlines by announcing this conversion to UKip. He has repeatedly said that he would never stab Dave in the back, and I’m sure that’s true: Michael abhors violence, and only ever allows the more carnivorous of his colleagues to keep biting legs until opponents fall over.
The Times is particularly keen on getting the Govey Desert into 10 Downing Street. It’s been giving him the big tick on higher educational standards (a view which, as it happens, I share) and only yesterday gave copious space to his new wheeze, ‘GCSEs to be replaced by ‘I levels’ with a grading system between 1 and 8 in the most fundamental reforms to qualifications at 16 for a generation’. Michael Gove was a Murdoch hack for many years. Rupert Murdoch would greatly prefer it if the Met dropped the investigation into pc blagging. Joining the dots here, do we see another hobgoblin taking shape at the end of the bed?

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