Network analyst claims "Climategate" emails/files result of internal leak, not external hack

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: John Lupton <lupton () isc upenn edu>
> Date: December 7, 2009 4:29:47 PM EST
> To: SECURITY-SIG () LISTS UPENN EDU
> Subject: Network analyst claims "Climategate" emails/files result of  
> internal leak, not external hack
> Reply-To: lupton () isc upenn edu

> Whatever your views on global warming and/or the "Climategate"  
> brouhaha, you'll probably find this interesting:
>
> http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/07/comprhensive-network-analysis-shows-climategate-likely-to-be-a-leak/#more-13821
>
> Levsen, the author, concludes that it is much more likely that the  
> emails and files were leaked by an anonymous (so far) whistleblower  
> at East Anglia University rather than by a hacker from Russia, or  
> anywhere else. The comments following the story are interesting,  
> some are not convinced Levsen really knows what he's doing. One of  
> the intersting nuggets revealed in the comments, though, is that  
> apparently one of the CRU scientists involved was in the practice of  
> putting his user name *and* password in his email signature...
>
> Any of our email/SMTP gurus out there have any pithy comments about  
> this?
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------
> John T. Lupton
> Sr. Information Security Specialist
> University of Pennsylvania/ISC
> lupton () isc upenn edu/215-573-3811



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