Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/09/2009 1:57:21 PM PST by Sneakyuser
There also is nothing in the record to suggest a hacking. Indeed, there is tremendous reason to suspect a whistleblower, tracing back the evolution of the demands for the information, the denials, and the information’s path into the public realm.
Yet whichever it was changes nothing about the substance, all of which is found in documents subject to the UK’s freedom of information act.
Which raises the second, ultra-whiny complaint sniffing about “private emails”. Actually, in looking into this I have yet to see one private email. So far I have only found more than a thousand emails subject to the UK’s freedom of information act, discussing taxpayer funded projects and professional advocacy. Someone might volunteer some of these private emails. And computer code, annotations, etc.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
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Been saying that all along.
Don’t let the ‘progressives’ form the narrative on this subject!!
Most current thinking on the matter is that the emails were harvested from an email archive server in potential response to a FOI request, and the folder with the HARRY_READ_ME.txt, code, data, and documents, were gathered up from individual computers and aggrigated in that same zip file.
Then someone at CRU put the zip file in a pubically accessable FTP server and someone else found it.
It could have been someone “fishing” around publically accessable FTP servers who found it, not a “whistle blower.”
Point is, CRU should know all of this by now, and have the IP address of the computer(s) that downloaded the file. It will all come out eventually.
IMO the files would have been aggregated together by an internal whistle-blower, carried out on a pendrive and published from a public computer in Norwich shopping centre.
More rationale to support “leaked” versus “hacked” here:
Is that how it was done, eh?
Job well done, mate...
Generations salute the "whistle-blower" (hopefully the Gore-ian mafia don't catch him ... but I suspect that they'd get distracted at the first donut shop in the Norwich shopping centre during their investigation ... they'll probably just continue to blame Russian 'hackers' ... or Sarah Palin)
The Prison Planet / Small Dead Animals link contains a plausible explanation until he gets to the “procmail” server method of gathering the emails.
He’s right about the file structure though, a point that I’ve made several times - the “mail files” are not really “email files”. They are “text” files that have been processed from “email files”. This article posits the theory that the leaker wrote a procmail script to cull the mail boxes of the five main “players.”
Possible. Not likely. The time frame is too long. They span 13 years.
Much more likely - they were archived via a mail archive system. Organizations that are subject to FOI requests generally keep such a system in order to maintain compliance with the law. These systems are easily searchable if you have access to the system.
Sort of points in the same direction. A leak not a hack. Except that the circle of people with access to the “archive” system is likely to be a much smaller, and raises additional questions about the makeup and intent of what I believe is a painstakingly researched “presentation” not a “hack” and not a random “leak”.
Thanks for the additional insight into the Climategate E-mails. Unfortunately, most of the news accounts still use the terms “hacked” or “stolen”.
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