It's not just murder victims and government officials who have been hacked by Rupert Murdoch's minions. A once-pseudonymous sex writer claims a writer for the Murdoch-owned Sunday Times installed a trojan on her computer in an effort to out her.

The real-life Belle du Jour, Dr. Brooke Magnanti, was interviewed by Billie Piper last night. We learned that Magnanti's sex work was done in part to fund her ambition of becoming not an actress, model or even writer...but a physicist.