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2011-07-20 03:39:48 | News Corp and the Hacked Climategate Emails: Time for an Independent Investigation | |
Albatross Julian Brimelow stomatalaperture@gmail... 199.126.232.206 |
Is Rom perhaps onto something here? Yes, I know, conspiracyt theory and all that. But it does make one wonder....or at least, it should. | |
2011-07-20 04:21:17 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Doesn't seem all that implausible to me. I do recall reading back at the time that Scotland Yard was involved in the Climategate hacking investigation. Phone hacking is quite different than computer network hacking, but there's no doubt that News Corp had the motive to try and introduce climate 'controversy'.
I agree it's worth an independent investigation. Turn the tables and investigate some 'skeptics' for once. | |
2011-07-20 04:59:23 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
I have to say, I'm not optimistic that anything will ever come from this. Computer hacking is extremely hard, if not impossible, to trace. There is likely no evidence to go on. They only way anything will come out on this is if someone in the circle of people who committed the crime comes forward to blow the whistle. That has to be a very small circle of people and it requires one of them to have a crisis of conscience. I think Murdock is pretty skilled at purging people of conscience. | |
2011-07-20 06:23:00 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 64.129.227.4 |
Actually, it looks like News Corp (specifically News America) has a history of computer hacking as well.
Sound familiar? | |
2011-07-20 06:31:34 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
OMG. From that article... "Much of the lawsuit was based on the testimony of Robert Emmel, a former News America executive who had become a whistle-blower. After a few days of testimony, the News Corporation had heard enough. It settled with Floorgraphics for $29.5 million and then, days later, bought it, even though it reportedly had sales of less than $1 million." | |
2011-07-20 06:59:20 | My take | |
John Hartz John Hartz john.hartz@hotmail... 98.122.98.161 |
News Corp most likely bribed someone on the EA staff to gain access to the system and/or download the email file onto a memory stick. | |
2011-07-20 07:33:29 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
It's a pretty small staff there at the CRU. | |
2011-07-20 10:29:38 | Out of curiousity... | |
John Hartz John Hartz john.hartz@hotmail... 98.122.98.161 |
what media first broke the news about the CRU emails?l | |
2011-07-23 21:47:59 | ||
James Wight jameswight@southernphone.com... 112.213.160.128 |
DeSmogBlog did a detailed article on the origins of the "Climategate story": Badger, the story broke on blogs like The Blackboard and Watts Up With That. Among the first in the mainstream media to report it were Andrew Bolt, James Delingpole, the BBC, and Fox News. | |
2011-07-23 22:08:44 | ||
grypo gryposaurus@gmail... 173.69.56.151 |
The files were posted on blogs WUWT, Air Vent, Climate Audit, and Statpad. Stapad (romanM, a CA mod) was a blog that was hardly used. This suggests that either the hacker or whoever recieved the files from the hacker had an intimate knowledge of the skeptic blogs. The three days following the initial post from the hacker are interesting.
Read parts 1,2,3 of this
and
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/13/climategate%E2%80%94the-ctm-story/
While we can't say who actually broke the law, or paid for it to be broken, there is a small group of bloggers we know well who are unabashedly responsible for how it was initially reported.
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2011-07-25 04:10:56 | ||
perseus owlsmoor@googlemail... 188.220.205.42 |
Was Neil Wallace a double agent when hired by the UEA as he was with the Metropolitan Police? I'm not sure if this is more embarrassing for UEA or the Denier lobby since it hardly reflects sound judgment! Hacking Scandal - Neil Wallis Connection To The CLIMATE GATE HACKED EMAILS 2009. How Murdoch’s Times of London and Fox News Coordinate Their Deceitful Reporting on Climate Change |