British ex-chief scientific adviser 'Climate emails hacked by spies'

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit 
in East Anglia
was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist.

Sir David King, who was Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that the hacking and 
selective leaking of the unit's emails,
going back 13 years, bore all the hallmarks of a co-ordinated intelligence operation 
– especially given their release just before the Copenhagen climate conference in December."
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More at
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-emails-hacked-by-spies-1885147.html

Actual Climate Change Thread:
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2009-December/023086.html

Was the ClimateGate Hacker Justified? Join the Debate!:
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2009-December/023124.html

Juha-Matti

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