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Why BBC sent undercover reporter into a busy London police station
Adjusting his uniform, Rory Bibb glanced in the mirror before setting off to start his new job. “I feel ready,” he told his video diary. This was no ordinary first day. For the next seven months, Rory was employed as a designated detention officer at London’s Charing Cross police station. He was also secretly working…
‘You’ll never need to work again’: Criminals offer reporter money to hack BBC
Like many things in the shadowy world of cyber-crime, an insider threat is something very few people have experience of. Even fewer people want to talk about it. But I was given a unique and worrying experience of how hackers can leverage insiders when I myself was recently propositioned by a criminal gang. “If you…
‘I have nothing to go back to’ – BBC reporter tells of LA fires heartbreak
It’s been four days since Los Angeles became an inferno – and my home became a pile of smouldering embers. I’m now staying at a friend’s house in La Crescenta, north of the city, after evacuating my condo in the Palisades, 30 miles (48km) away from where the fires first started on Tuesday morning. I…