Who hacked the CRU emails? I suspect Russian teenagers
Turns out that this fairly simple supposition is now finding support in the media:
Is Russia behind the Climategate hackers?
Climate e-mails were hijacked 'to sabotage summit'
Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails?
"The leaked emails, which claimed to provide evidence that the unit's head, Professor Phil Jones, colluded with colleagues to manipulate data and hide "unhelpful" research from critics of climate change science, were originally posted on a server in the Siberian city of Tomsk, at a firm called Tomcity, an internet security business."
The FSB security services, descendants of the KGB, are believed to invest significant resources in hackers, and the Tomsk office has a record of issuing statements congratulating local students on hacks aimed at anti-Russian voices, deeming them "an expression of their position as citizens, and one worthy of respect". The Kremlin has also been accused of running co-ordinated cyber attacks against websites in neighbouring countries such as Estonia, with which the Kremlin has frosty relations, although the allegations were never proved.
"It's very common for hackers in Russia to be paid for their services," Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the vice chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, said in Copenhagen at the weekend. "It's a carefully made selection of emails and documents that's not random. This is 13 years of data, and it's not a job of amateurs."
Were Russian security services behind the leak of 'Climategate' emails?
Other information indicates that the source of the hack is traceable. If my supposition is supported by evidence, will the tide turn? We shall see.
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