11 January 2005. Messages from the Dermot Ahern blog naming IRA members and drug dealers and exposing Vodafone snooping:
http://cryptome.org/dermot-names.htm
Slugger O'Toole comments on the Dermot Ahern blog:
http://www.sluggerotoole.com/archives/2005/01/rough_blogging.php#trackback
4 January 2005. Thanks to several who pointed to the offending information.
From: "BlogDrive.Com" <notifications@blogdrive.com> To: dermotahern@hotmail.com Subject: Contact Form Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:34:36 -0800 (PST) The following was posted to your site Dermott Ahern (http://dundalk.blogdrive.com) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Cian Beecher" <cian.beecher@vodafone.com> Message: STRICTLY PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL Dear Sir, I am writing to inform you that I am a solicitor engaged by Vodafone Ireland. The content of your web page www.dundalk.blogdrive.com and in particular certain information posted on the site on the 3rd January, 2005, has been notified to my client. My client will not tolerate the publication of false, inaccurate, misleading or damaging material relating to the operation of its business. The purpose of this email is to call upon you to immediately remove the offending material from your web site and also to cease and desist from the publication of further material of this nature. Should you fail or refuse to do so you are hereby notified that my client will take all such action that it deems appropriate. Yours faithfully Cian Beecher Solicitor Vodafone Ireland Limited.
[The offending information and responses]
Posted at 03:42 pm by Dermot Ahern
Monday, January 03, 2005
VODAFONE
Vodafone Ireland has its main Irish call centre based in Dundalk, employing in the region of 200 people. Most if not all those working there have access to all customer details from their phone records. For years now it is the talk of the town who is ringing who and who is texting who. Many employees discuss vodafone customer details on the outside and this can be very dangerous in a town like Dundalk. What is there stopping Vodafone employees discussing phone records with serious criminals or terrorists. Very little background checks are done on those working in Vodafone.
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Posted by admin @ 01/04/2005 12:18 AM PST
just recieved a letter from Vodafones legal people will post the letter here in full tomorrow.
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Posted by ex employee @ 01/04/2005 11:21 AM PST
what about the overcharging widely known in house.
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Posted by mary @ 01/04/2005 12:10 PM PST
As an employee since the Eircom days i can tell you that what goes on here is a national disgrace. Most of the young ones working here check up on boyfriends etc to see who and what they are texting. In one case a Garda and well known footballer was caught out "seeing" a married woman from Blackrock by someone on the inside checking his details. Not all of the call centres have security systems on the computers, leaving the system wide open to "in=house snoops". Peter Richardson is a nice boss.
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Posted by Concerned @ 01/04/2005 05:59 PM PST
I have also been given info from Vodafone employees - although intriguing, I'd rather not know it!
It included incidently the Taoiseach's phone bill etc.
This must be stopped at once.
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Posted by sean @ 01/04/2005 06:04 PM PST
employees freely putting credit on friends phones, wat a job
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Posted by ooooo @ 01/04/2005 06:38 PM PST
has to be the most bitchy place to work, too many clicks and too many kissing peters ass
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Posted by Name Bernard Ghillebaert @ 01/04/2005 07:09 PM PST
Thats so funny, I have seen the letter - bottoms are twitching at Newbury.
blogger = idiot so lets send him a stupid letter.
There seems to be a real problem , if Vodafone had any sense they would address the problem, then report back HERE on why we shouldn't move our business to the more secure ORANGE. Good luck with these aholes. Its ironic that you are being intimidated by these corporate fools, given the scope for more serious objections with what you do..
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