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At this point almost nothing about Rupert Murdoch and the behaviour of one his many Slimeball corporations should surprise anyone.

If you are a UK resident, you would know the horrendous actions of his tabloids - Hacking the voice mail of a Murdered Child's parents, etc. If in the US think of Fox News (all that needs to be said).

This guy and his corporations are as close to a nonredeemable "Bond Villain" as you can get in real life.

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You're right, we shouldn't be surprised but he's becoming such a caricature of his own evil who knows where it will end?

He makes that crazy statement Rumsfeld came up with about "unknown unknowns - things that we don't know that we don't know" seem like a proper sentence when you think Met Police are trawling through a database of 300,000,000 separate News International emails in East London as we speak, 11 million of which were deleted and then recovered.

"Unknown unknowns" is a sensible statement. It quite often is the case in project risk management. That is why you add contingency.

I thought here of all places would discriminate between "guessing a voice mail pin number" and "hacking".

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