If you're in San Francisco tomorrow night and you've got $500 burning a hole in your pocket you might want to stop by The Westin St. Francis for the Bay Area Council's 61st Annual Dinner. Times Executive Editor Bill Keller will deliver the keynote address, followed by the induction of recently-deposed Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame.
"We currently have sufficient evidence to indict people both within Hewlett-Packard Co. as well as contractors on the outside," California Attorney General Bill Lockyer told PBS's Jim Lehrer last week. Now the New York Times says Lockyer has a tough case to press. Valleywag friend Chris Coulter says Lockyer sees this as his shot at stardom.
By Beth Gottfried
by Beth Gottfried
• Apparently Apple made some sort of announcement yesterday. [Gizmodo]
• Is the White House spying on journalists? That's the kind of thing that can get you fired! [CBS]
• Hewlett-Packard Chairman forced out for investigation that spied on journalists. [USAToday]
• Of course, sometimes journalists act like spies. [NYO]
• NYT sells off its TV stations to focus on print newspapers, digital media, and launching new glossy magazines about sections that already exist every other month. [NYT]
This week's tech news is all about "pretexting," the method that investigators hired by Hewlett-Packard used to get the personal phone records of reporters and HP board members. But what is it? You'd better know, because it's about to blow up the business world.
During its emergency Sunday board meeting, Hewlett-Packard didn't decide whether to ask chairwoman Patricia Dunn to resign, now that her two-year-old investigation of board members' and reporters' personal phone records threw the company into legal and PR trouble.
Liberal bias aside, journalists hate telling a one-sided story, so the Red Herring needed a source sympathetic to Hewlett-Packard's phone-record-snooping chairwoman, Patricia Dunn. Someone who's done their own social engineering. Someone hardcore. And writer Brian Caulfield found one: Kevin Mitnick.
