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I’ve read several comments where people still believe that Climategate was done by a whistleblowe. If you want to be sceptic, you need to be sceptic about everything. Especially about your own beliefs.
After reading this news, it’s not likely that it was an internal leak. Before all this information I thought that an internal leak was probable. Pointman wrote in his blog good reasons for that. However, this police Q&A states a number of facts, that make is unlikely that it was an internal leak. So FOIA is probably a computer whiz who knows how to exploit vulnerablilities and crack systems without being caught. People like those are not climate scientists, who would do a lousy job like Peter Gleick did.
So who is FOIA? It’s certainly someone who dislikes the climate science shenanigans as much as any of us. I don’t think that it’s a company (like Big Oil) or a country (like China). FOIA is an individual or at most a small group of people. And if I would have to bet, I’d put my money on FOIA being a student at the UEA. One, who does not study climate science or arts or social sciences but real science. They do have a Faculty of Science there and also teach computer science, mathematics and engineering. They do have students with necessary skills and the students would have a better chance of knowing more about UEA’s computer network.
I don’t think it is wise to remain convinced, that it was a leak. We critisize climate scientists, that they discard unwanted information to remain convinced about AGW. How can we critisize them if we discard all this information and stubbornly claim that it was a leak? It makes no sense. It probably was a hack, but it doesn’t diminish the seriousness of the hacked material.
Truthseeker says:
July 19, 2012 at 10:48 pm
They could have just gone to this excellent analysis and achieved a greater understanding than they seem to have arrived at on their own.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/why-climategate-was-not-a-computer-hack/
Pointman hits the bullseye … again.
He does.
It is an expansion of the same point I made on another thread. The work factor involved for potentially nothing of interest and definitely nothing of interest to a ‘great white’. Remember back to the first release. The total shock at the content of the emails and the dreadfully inept poor quality software (as in Harry readme). Someone had to know the dirty washing was there and understand it was dirty washing and that the world would be aghast when it was released. Would a ‘great white’ hacker with lots of computer knowledge also understand the importance of the emails and the development software?