Posted on 11/24/2009 12:56:43 PM PST by wannabegeek
By now just about everyone following climate will be aware that CRU has suffered what is, at the very least, data theft. The content of some of the personal communications released has been authenticated although this does not mean all the product is genuine and everyone must be mindful of the possibility there has been some editing to alter the intent or context of documents. There are also ethical considerations involved in release of what are essentially stolen goods.
That said the genie is well and truly out of the bottle and there is massive public interest involved in authentication of purported reasons for a multi-trillion dollar effort to re-engineer society and its energy supply. Most of the players in this revelation are really big wheels in the IPCC climate scare promotion and CRU temperature data forms the base reference for much of the IPCC's report framework. Moreover, mobilizing the web's army of document authenticators may be the fastest way to discover if there has been any attempt to perpetrate a hoax (it has certainly been effective before, to the detriment of certain politically motivated media personalities).
Update: It has become fairly obvious this archive was not "hacked" or "stolen" but rather is a file assembled by CRU staff in preparation for complying with a freedom of information request. Whether it was carelessly left in a publicly accessible portion of the CRU computer system or was "leaked" by staff believing the FOIA request was improperly rejected may never be known but is not really that important. What is important is that:
With some reluctance we have decided to host compressed archives of the hacked files and uncompressed directories you can browse online. Both are linked from the menu or you can simply point your browser to http://junkscience.com/FOIA/
If you want to rummage through just the emails An Elegant Chaos has provided a search utility here, under constant development and improvement: Alleged CRU Emails - Searchable (An Elegant Chaos)
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The people pursuing the FOIA requests need to get in gear and sue these A-holes to force “official” release of these docs.
I did that once too. Stopped when I accidently printed off the schools payroll.
The liberals will continue as though nothing has happened.
If these guys don't have data connections to industrial size databases where they are crunching the data then it just adds to the skepticism. I am downloading the compressed archive now and will check it out thanks for posting that hyperlink for it.
Oh all the shared network drives were public it didn’t need password to read their contents. It was kinda weird for a large school.
You really need to look at the HARRY_READ_ME file. Here’s a link to one of the many partial dissections of that file.
These guys had no clue about what they were doing. Apparently no version control, no configuration control, no documentation on the contents of each file...mass confusion. The HARRY_READ_ME file is a three year long diary of one programmers attempt to make some sense out of the mess he was handed.
Same when I was in school. They relied on students not knowing Job Control Language. There was no security back then. I don’t think the operating systems really allowed for it. If you could sign on to the computer and knew you’re way around, you had access.
One of the best things coming out of this hack could be that algore fades into oblivion [of course he’ll do it with a ton of money made from his climate-scam]
The files may have been uploaded to FTP server in Russia by some disgrunted staff or their lousy school system administrator put those files in the public network share drives.
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