HP reportedly considered hiring newsroom spies

Steve Safran September 21st, 2006

The Hewlett-Packard boardroom spy scandal would have come to a newsroom near you if some of the HP braintrust had their way. HP reportedly ruminated over hiring spies in the offices of CNet and The Wall Street Journal. The spies would have cleverly been disguised as custodians or worked in clerical positions. The report also says the company’s surveillance extended to a CNet reporter, whose email they tapped by sending him an email with monitoring spyware in it. The scandal didn’t stop a San Francisco group from honoring HP Chairwoman Patricia Dunn - she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Bay Area Council. Maybe the council didn’t feel like reprinting the invites.

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