Bwaaaaaaaaaah! Leveson inquiry Piers Morgan told me how to hack a phone, says Jeremy Paxman

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/23/leveson-piers-morgan-paxman
Couldn't happen to a nicer person
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Piers Morgan described to Jeremy Paxman how to hack into a mobile phone at a lunch held at the headquarters of the Daily Mirror publisher, the BBC presenter has told the Leveson inquiry.

Paxman said on Wednesday afternoon that at the same lunch he attended Morgan also teased TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson about the details of private conversations she had had with Sven-Göran Eriksson, at the time the England football manager.

Paxman said he was seated beside Morgan – now a New York-based CNN talkshow presenter – with Jonsson, Blank and Sir Philip Green, the Top Shop billionaire sitting nearby.

Paxman said that Morgan also turned to him at the lunch and explained how phone hacking worked.

"He then turned to me and said 'Have you got a mobile phone?', I said 'Yes', and he said 'Have you got a security setting on the message bit of it'," he added. "I don't think it was called voicemail in those days, I didn't know what he was talking about. He then explained that the way to get access to people's message was to go to the factory default setting and press either 0000 or 1234 and that if you didn't put on your own code … his words: 'your're a fool'."
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This Inquiry is very interesting -