Monday, December 7, 2009

#Climategate emails & code likely leaked by an insider, not hacked

Comprehensive network analysis shows Climategate likely to be a leak
This lends cred to WUWT’s previous analysis done by our own Charles the moderator: The CRUtape Letters™, an Alternative Explanation,

Climate-Gate: Leaked
by Lance Levsen, Network Analyst – courtesy of Small Dead Animals
Introduction
Some time starting in mid November 2009, ten million teletypes all started their deet-ditta-dot chatter reeling off the following headline: “Hackers broke into the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit….”

I hate that. It annoys me because just like everything else about climate-gate it’s been ‘value-added’; simplified and distilled. The contents of FOIA2009.zip demand more attention to this detail and as someone once heard Professor Jones mutter darkly, “The devil is in the details…so average it out monthly using TMax!”

The details of the files tell a story that FOIA2009.zip was compiled internally and most likely released by an internal source.

Full post here http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/07/comprhensive-network-analysis-shows-climategate-likely-to-be-a-leak/

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