Murdoch took to Twitter to accuse Google of being the “leader” of internet piracy, and highlighted free links the search engine giant provided for the Mission Impossible movie. The boss of the News Corporation empire accused Google of “plain thievery“, and according to The Telegraph Google responded branding his comments as “nonsense“.

The media tycoon also accused the Obama administration in Washington of giving in to the will of the “Silicon Valley paymasters” because of plans to scale down online piracy legislation. This is not the first time Murdoch has taken to Twitter to view his opinions since opening an account earlier this month.

He ridiculed British people for the amount of holidays they take, and it seemed his wife took to the site to tell him off about his comments, but it turned out to be a fake account set up in her name. Murdoch’s latest tirade comes as an intense debate in the US regarding online piracy legislation.

The White House has hinted it may not proceed with proposals that would give the state power to interfere with the internet. This is what led Murdoch to make his comments by accusing Google of being a “piracy leader“, and streaming movies for free while selling adverts.

He went on to post further tweets complaining how online piracy was damaging the movie industry, and claimed to have searched for Mission Impossible and found a variety of sites offering links to the movie for free. He did add that Google were a “great company” and that it does block “many other undesirable things”.

Google has responded and rubbished Murdoch’s claims and added the company removed five million websites from their search results that infringed rules, and invested over $60 million to fight against bad advertisements. They believe they are some good ways to close down foreign criminal websites without having to censor the internet.

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With all the stories surfacing of reporters hacking into voice mail accounts of various people, should you be worried it could happen to you? David Strom of ReadWriteWeb is reporting that phone hacking is not exactly hard to achieve. The hacking which was committed by the reporters was minimal but obviously still wrong.

Allegedly some reporters asked their shift editor to make calls to the intended victim using a phone spoofing service. These services are easy to set up using any specified caller ID, and once a number is known it can obtain your voicemail. This works because the majority of cell phones allow access to the voicemail without any PIN number or password.

Three of the US cell phone carriers work this way except Verizon which requires users to have a PIN number to access voicemail accounts. Before many people kept their cell phone numbers guarded as plans used to cost a lot more. But now as call plans have many cell phone to cell phone minutes bundled in, more people share their numbers via business cards or email signatures.

To actually orchestrate a cell phone spoofing is relatively easy as there are a number of sites which offer the service, some even for free. First you sign up and then dial an access number to the service, before entering the number you want to hack. The caller ID number is then displayed, with many services having simple voice instructions. After your call is finished the recipient will see the caller ID which you entered instead of the calling number of your phone.

If someone does manage to hack into your voicemail there is not much chance you would know unless they delete messages. Many services allow a message to be marked as unread after it has been listened to.

For more on the history of caller ID spoofing click here. If you are concerned about your voicemail make sure you use a PIN, and try to have something which won’t be easily worked out by someone who may be trying to access it.