We still have no final report from the Norfolk police on whether the ClimateGate files were a hack, or an inside job by a whistleblower. However, we do have another example emerging today that illustrates that it seems rather easy for a hacker to gain access. What’s worse, security problems have apparently been pointed out, and ignored.
This part caught my eye:
A 2011 Inspector General’s report on the agency’s computer network found that it was fraught with security holes, many of which have been known about for months without being fixed.
I wonder if CRU had the same sort of security holes and if NASA GISS suffers from some of the same issues as the rest of the agency?
Full story here.
Doesn’t so much security just depend on anonymity? ‘… everybody knows that “nobody knows” this password, and it’ll be so much easier to remember if we don’t have to change it.’. A common feature of multi-user passwords.