Steve McIntyre on the Bolt report

Andrew Bolt interview with Steve McIntyre from the Climate Audit blog, who exposed the infamous “hockey stick”, talking about the leaked emails that expose the warming scare.

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David, UK
December 3, 2011 3:08 am

Chris Watson says:
December 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I know you guys love Andrew Bolt because he opposes climate alarmism, but that’s a case of the stopped watch being right once in a while. Andrew Bolt has a terrible reputation in Australia, and rightly so – he’s famous for making deplorable and insensitive comments about migrants and ethnic minorities.

Oh get a life, victim hugger. Migrants and ethnic minorities! You forgot women and deaf people. He was insensitive to those err… “communities” too. Clearly you don’t care about those oppressed social groups though, you insensitive sexist, deafist bastard!
/sarc

Ilkka Mononen
December 3, 2011 4:49 am

All the mails includes, scam, data manipulation, press influence, smearig
activist campaigns and so on.
When slimeballer team have had time to do their own real job?
date: Sat Apr 7 16:57:01 2001
from: Mike Hulme
subject: RE: kyoto survey – press inquiry from the THES
to: “Farrar, Steve”
OK, will try and do this by Tuesday morning.
Mike
At 09:45 05/04/01 +010 ???, you wrote:
Dear Mike,
thanks for that. I feel terrible but despite the pain it cost to reply to the survey,
the deadline has now passed. We had such a high response rate that we decided to run the
piece in this week’s paper while the issue of the US withdrawl from the protocol was
still high in everyone’s mind. So I cannot include your responses. However, you make a
number of very significant points, not least your reply to question 2 on the strength of
the evidence and the political framework outlined in your final sentences. I wonder –
and I know this is pushing it – whether you might consider rearranging some of these
sentences to form a brief letter to the editor for the following week’s paper? I would
like this issue to stay alive in the THES and allow the paper to play a small role in
persuading as many scientists as possible to take part in a scientific/political debate
that may contribute to influencing those people who *can* change things. Not an original
objective, I know, but the THES does have a fairly unique position within the academic
community and hence a responsibility. Anyhow, sorry for the bad news
best wishes
Steve
***********************
Steve Farrar
Science Reporter
Times Higher Education Supplement
66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX
United Kingdom
[1]www.thes.co.uk
Tel: (44) ???
Fax: (44) ???
—–Original Message—–
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=3423.txt&search=+—————————————————————————-

Antonia
December 3, 2011 5:20 am

And there was nothing wrong with Pauline Hanson either though the media went ape to kill her. She was just the canary in the coalmine warning governments that ordinary Australians were sick and tired of the economic “reforms” that saw their children’s jobs exported to Asia.
For non-Australians, Pauline Hanson is an Australian nationalist who was dis-endorsed by the Liberal Party (liberal in Oz means conservative) for expressing Politically Incorrect Thoughts about indigenous Australians. She stood as an independent in what was a safe Labor seat and won it convincingly. Much to the intelligentia’s dismay.
At the next election the boundaries were changed and she lost her seat. Since then she’s become a media tart.
Hanson was never the sharpest pencil in the box but she was also not the moron the media made her out to be. She is and was a patriot in an age where that word is verboten.
I have respect for Pauline Hanson because of all the indignities she has suffered: being imprisoned; refusing to have visits from her children because she would be subject to indecent body searches.
A disgusting episode in Australia’s history.

Hugh Pepper
December 3, 2011 9:50 am

The commentator begins his piece with the assertion that the “Climategate 1/2” memos were leaked. Wrong:they were stolen. He then asserts that a “small” group of scientists are convincing the world that their is a problem needing fixing now. In fact, the “small group” is a huge group and the so-called skeptics are the small group.They have achieved this mischievous result by”massaging data, and censoring “skeptics”, he asserts. Again wrong, as confirmed by 5/6 independent investigations.
This is an incredibly inaccurate beginning, and it sets the tone for everything which follows, unfortunately.

December 3, 2011 10:23 am

Hugh Pepper says December 3, 2011 at 9:50 am
The commentator begins his piece with the assertion that the “Climategate 1/2″ memos were leaked. Wrong:they were stolen. …


.

Dave Springer
December 3, 2011 11:51 am

That’s gonna leave a mark.

Editor
December 3, 2011 12:42 pm

Ilkka Mononen – Please can you confirm that I understand correctly what you are saying, that is –
– you have found how to decode email attachments, or files embedded in the emails.
– you have not found how to decode the ‘200,000’ files released by the whistleblower/hacker that are still ‘7zip’ encrypted

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Mike Jonas
December 3, 2011 1:11 pm

Yes, the key is in the mail, its not hidden, its´steganographical crypting, and
anybody regognizes that the mail includes a secret message.
I have put plenty of examples to hese pages, but anybody seems not to understand that.
Example: key is space key and regard. +regarded, space key generates +
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1109021312.txt&search=+regarded
Do you not see how easy it is, it is true, they are real messages Clomategate 1, or 2
“decrypted”.
Where is that Jim, he can explain better.
Ilkka

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Mike Jonas
December 3, 2011 1:32 pm

My answer is, the hidden messages are unbedded in the unzipped files, as you see.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1109021312.txt&search=+regarded
I hope that you will deny me twice, they are real!

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 3, 2011 3:15 pm

Theory: The tie between master dictionary and hidden dictionary is broken.
You can´t search Hidden files, because you dont know their names txt>18384024028.
Slimeballers must know exactly that >————– is txt>18384024028
So they must put it on the screen that >————– , ass i mean.
They have no another way, to use hidden files.
God only knows, but so it works.
It is an open book to read.
Ilkka.

Ilkka Mononen
December 3, 2011 3:39 pm

And the superkey: 1109021312.txt&search=+AcUXiV64e%2Ff3Ii8uQSa0X88pndSQgQAl2O1w
How many bits crypting?
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1109021312.txt&search=+AcUXiV64e%2Ff3Ii8uQSa0X88pndSQgQAl2O1w

johanna
December 3, 2011 5:34 pm

Chris Watson says:
December 1, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I know you guys love Andrew Bolt because he opposes climate alarmism, but that’s a case of the stopped watch being right once in a while. Andrew Bolt has a terrible reputation in Australia, and rightly so – he’s famous for making deplorable and insensitive comments about migrants and ethnic minorities.
———————————————————————
Bolt’s ‘insensitive comments’ relate to radical Islamists (whatever their ethnic background, including Anglo/Celtic), people who break the law (including ethnic gangs, which he has the gall to identify) and people who come to Australia, live on welfare and dedicate themselves to undermining fundamental values such as state secularism, democracy, sexual equality and freedom of speech. So shoot him.
As he is a migrant himself, and has never made disparaging comments about entire races, nationalities or religions, just about some individuals, the racist epithet just doesn’t wash. What he will not do is paper over the truth in the interests of pretending that everything is rosy in the multicultural garden, or that every religious or cultural practice or belief is equally valid. These views are not exactly extreme – unless you support genital mutilation, fatwahs, State ordained religion, compulsory purdah for women and a range of other unpleasant and uncivilised activities.
Bolt’s major failing in the eyes of his opponents is that he is so popular. They seem to think that he singlehandedly brainwashes vast numbers of the population, something they are not succeeding in doing. It is just another example of how contemptuous some sections of the ‘intelligensia’ and the media are of the opinions and perceptions of the unwashed masses. You get the feeling that they would, given half the chance, restrict the franchise exclusively to people like themselves.

December 3, 2011 5:53 pm

Illkka, these strings:
“+AcUXiV64e/f3Ii8uQSa0X88pndSQgQAl2O1w”
or
“+AcUXiV64e%2Ff3Ii8uQSa0X88pndSQgQAl2O1w”
when entered as the password when prompted by 7Zip did not open any of the archives or files in “all.7z” for me, at least …
.

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  _Jim
December 3, 2011 6:30 pm

You must put it tho this machine, the first letter must be + in the window (space in tis case).
Dont key it, use copy/paste.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 3, 2011 10:32 pm

We have diffrent Charsets,
Are FOIA files US ascii?
If you put a wrong ASCII key code to the text string, it fails.
Once again, use copy fom FOIA grepper, and paste it back to search window.
This is NOTE.
http://ascii-table.com/keyboard.php/285-1
Ei ne ymmärrä hölökäsenpölläystä!

December 4, 2011 7:19 am

Ilkka Mononen says December 3, 2011 at 10:32 pm
We have diffrent Charsets,
Are FOIA files US ascii?
If you put a wrong ASCII key code to the text string, it fails.
Once again, use copy fom FOIA grepper, and paste it back to search window.
This is NOTE.
http://ascii-table.com/keyboard.php/285-1
Ei ne ymmärrä hölökäsenpölläystä!

Also note, Ilkka, that, conversion has occurred in some of the characters going from the original files to the web-site files that are now on the ecowho.com website.
For example:
1) line number 19 from file “2803.txt” directly from FOIA2011.zip file on my PC:
> –=====================_867848803==_
2) line number 19 from http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=2803.txt
> –=====================_??? ==_
3) I now show the two lines next to each other:
> –=====================_867848803==_
> –=====================_??? ==_
Note the change from: “867848803” (9 characters) to: “??? ” (4 characters including the trailing space). What accounts for this change?
My recommendation, if in doubt, or to confirm any ‘results’ one obtains about decoding or actual content of files would be to use the files *directly* unzipped from the FOIA2011.zip file.
And. optionally, use a hex editor to examine directly the raw file data existing on the PC’s hard disk to confirm any changes in character set representation changes that might be taking place between what is actually _in a file_ and what is _displayed_ on a PC’s display.
.

December 4, 2011 7:28 am

Update: The 9 numeric characters were probably altered as part of an automated phone number masking script being applied to the file before upload to the web site.
Now I am curious about the details of this automated masking script; its output, when encountering decimal digit sequences, would seem to be: “??? “.
.

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 7:59 am

Is this old or unseen?
??? is puzzling me, if it means something else, i look it at &H, it is ???, is it canged
via ascii conversations?
Money talks:
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1826.txt&search=+—+
cc: Mike Hulme , Phil Jones , Sarah Raper
date: 25 Jul 1997 21:44:26 -0600
from: Tom Wigley
subject: Battelle & US DOE
to: Janice Darch
Dear Janice,
With regard to your message of July 18; “I’ll be back to you once Mike and
Phil have had a chance to discuss it.” …
There is nothing to discuss. There is no contract or formal arrangement with
CRU for Battelle Part 2. The money is mine to do with as I decide, and I have
decided to spend it here. If I had given part of this to CRU, it would have
been just that — a gift.
For US DOE, CRU has both a personal and contractual commitment to give some
money to me. Not only that, CRU has failed to fulfill this obligation for the
previous two years of the US DOE contract — something I find quite annoying.
By not demanding this money, I am essentially *giving* a considerable sum to
CRU. I’m sorry to have to point this out to you, but obviously I do.
When I said in my last email that there were no winners or losers with this
arrangement, I was wrong. CRU is the winner and I am the loser.
Regarding the issue of whether the work will be done, this is of no concern to
CRU for the Battelle work. For US DOE, it is an issue that Phil, as the
in-house PI, should be concerned about. As far as I can see, however, there
is no problem here. As always, CRU has done far more per $ that any other US
DOE grant recipient.
Cheers,
Tom”
Ps. — is a key.
What shall i find, is this text some kind of fairy tale?

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 8:22 am

Jim, thats it, the number ??? is the real number for message ID.
and ——————————————
Is the delivery list for diffrent groups.
I think we have found something, maybe BIG?
Ilkka.

G. Karst
December 4, 2011 9:12 am

I’m not sure but I think what Ilkka Mononen is saying, is that there are emails that are not included in the all.7z encrypted file that are unreadable. He has been able to process them into readable text. He is not referring to cracking the all.7z file but has cracked those emails that appear in as unreadable in the 5000 released readable batch. There are emails included in the release that are not readable. This might be important or at least may enable us to read those emails we are presently skipping over.
Ilkka Mononen – you should find someone who is fluent in English or describe your findings in your own language and perhaps someone here can translate. Start at the beginning and slowly describe what you are doing. GK

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 9:17 am

Bingo!
3) I now show the two lines next to each other:
> –=====================_867848803==_
> –=====================_??? ==_
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?search=867848803
Then, what means > -=============_
Thats it again.

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 9:49 am

Jim can explain, he understand same as me, but only if he wants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocles

Editor
December 4, 2011 10:01 am

> Bingo!
> 3) I now show the two lines next to each other:
> > –=====================_867848803==_
> > –=====================_??? ==_
Sorry – no bingo.
You are looking at the MIME encoding of Email messages. These have absolutely nothing to do with the encryption on a .zip file.
MIME is merly a way to break multiple pieces of content into a single Email. Most mail readers hide the details from users, but anything working with raw Email messages will see it. The Climategate 2 emails have partially removed the MIME at the beginning and what’s left is stuff that will confuse people not familiar with Email protocols and formats.
Here’s an example of Email composed on my Linux system by a mail reader called “exmh”.
There’s a piece I typed, another piece I included from a file (ilkka.txt), and a third piece from the same file, but encode with “Base64″ encoding. That is useful for including binary files, and things like .doc and other word processor files are binary.
MIME requires some unique chunk of text as a separator, those generally start (maybe must) with dashes and equal signs. In this case, it’s ” ==_Exmh_1323020915_150330″. The content can be almost anything, and you can often tell what mail system the user has, exmh for me. The numbers are probably the current Unix time (seconds since 1970 Jan 1), including microseconds to further help creating a unique string.
I’m sorry to say you are fixated on MIME strings as potential passwords or other magic numbers. They are not, and you’re just wasting your time in this pursuit.
-Ric
From: ewerme
To: ric
cc:
Subject: MIME demo
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed ;
boundary=”==_Exmh_1323020915_150330″
——–
This is a multipart MIME message.
–==_Exmh_1323020915_150330
Content-Type: text/plain
This is text part 1.
–==_Exmh_1323020915_150330
Content-Type: text/plain ; name=”ilkka.txt”
Content-Description: ilkka.txt
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”ilkka.txt”
This is from a separate text I’ve attached.
I’ll see if I can do it again with BASE64 encoding.
–==_Exmh_1323020915_150330
Content-Type: text/plain ; name=”ilkka.txt”
Content-Description: ilkka.txt
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”ilkka.txt”
VGhpcyBpcyBmcm9tIGEgc2VwYXJhdGUgdGV4dCBJJ3ZlIGF0dGFjaGVkLgoKSSdsbCBzZWUg
aWYgSSBjYW4gZG8gaXQgYWdhaW4gd2l0aCBCQVNFNjQgZW5jb2RpbmcuCg==
–==_Exmh_1323020915_150330–
What I see on my screen when I read the Email is:
Subject: MIME demo
From: ewerme
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:50:22 -0500
To: ricwermenh.com
(multipart/mixed)
1. (text/plain)
This is text part 1.
2. ilkka.txt (text/plain)
. . . (Invoke menu with right button.)
3. ilkka.txt (text/plain)
. . . (Invoke menu with right button.)

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 10:32 am

MIME has nohthing to do with that.
Seems that you are holding a phoney climate blog.
Maybe slimebollers called you an alaarm phone.
Mime tool is on right upper corner on screen.

December 4, 2011 10:41 am

Ric Werme says December 4, 2011 at 10:01 am

MIME requires some unique chunk of text as a separator, those generally start (maybe must) with dashes and equal signs.

For Ilkka, see:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmbhelp/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.etools.mft.doc%2Fac30080_.htm
Topic: Example definition of MIME boundary parameter, first, the _boundary_ definition statement:
Content-Type: Multipart/Related; boundary=MIME_boundary [assigned parm in bold]

MIME Delimiters: The boundary delimiter consists of a line starting with a hyphen pair, followed by a boundary string [as defined just above in this example -_Jim]. This sequence must not occur within the MIME message at any point other than as a boundary. A MIME end-delimiter is a hyphen pair, followed by the MIME boundary string, followed by a further hyphen pair. All delimiter lines must end in the ASCII sequence . An example of a delimited message is:
MIME_boundary [Note: This is the text as defined above preceded by hyphens]
message data
MIME_boundary
message data
MIME_boundary
… where MIME_boundary is the boundary delimiter string, and message data represents message data.
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
It would appear that there may be some ‘defaults’ for the ‘boundary’ parameter text, such as “=” or maybe “+” as well, usually occurring in a repeated fashion e.g. “–===========” .
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Multipart_messages
.

December 4, 2011 11:11 am

Ilkka Mononen says on December 4, 2011 at 7:59 am
Is this old or unseen?
??? is puzzling me, if it means something else, i look it at &H, it is ???, is it canged
via ascii conversations?

It looks like you are witnessing the application of (the product of) an e-mail and phone number ‘obscuring’ (obliteration or mangling) script applied before the file was placed on the (public) website.
The original files contain the actual data (ph #’s and e-mail addys).
I recommend you download the original FOIA2011.zip (ClimateGate II .zip) file and use that as the ‘Gold’ standard for interpretation and as the ultimate authority as to actual content. Websites are necessarily (literally: “out of necessity”) changing a slight bit of the content (as explained above) and I think the (obscuring) algorithms might be affecting some actual content (number sequences especially) as well.
The actual file can be found via link(s) here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/ (just before comments section).
.

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  _Jim
December 4, 2011 11:35 am

I found more, in Filand , this is vey intresting, newer seen.
We are now working on new emissions scenarios
-“emissions. He will forward you a copy of his most recent
-draft that we will be using to determine alternative sulfur emissions to go
-with new scenarios.”
I found the Finnish connection after 2 weeks searching.
to: Tim Carter
Only ??? to numbers.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1825.txt&search=.%40fmi.fi
0diggsdigg
Share
cc: ???@uea.ac.uk, ???@uea.ac.uk
date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 17:03:12 +010 ???
from: Nebojsa NAKICENOVIC
subject: Sulphate aerosol emissions
to: Tim Carter
Dear Tim,
We are now working on new emissions scenarios, as Mike told you. They are
not complete yet, the first pre-view should be available by April and final
versions in early 1999. Arnulf is working of the literature assessment of
sulfate aerosol emissions. He will forward you a copy of his most recent
draft that we will be using to determine alternative sulfur emissions to go
with new scenarios. As you will see, our current view is that older
scenarios over-estimated sulfur emissions. They are going to be lower
because of the need to protect against acidification, because of
technological change in the energy system and because of the shift away
from coal-intensive energy systems.
Best regards, Naki

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  _Jim
December 4, 2011 10:37 pm

Do you have ?????????.txt file, no unzipped, “crypted”.
So the number, of text file, you cant read.
I want to check it, have some idea.
Then we will see. or not.
Ilkka

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 5, 2011 1:11 am
Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 5, 2011 2:39 am

“BBCi at http://www.bbc.co.uk/
This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain
personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically
stated.
If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do
not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in
reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the
BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will
signify your consent to this.
Embedded Content: header.htm: 00000001,3bbc6812,00000000,00000000

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 5, 2011 2:57 am

Another story! i do not explain more, now the “case” is yours.
Let the scambag explode, just in time.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?search=++—————————————————————————-

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 5, 2011 3:28 am

And BBC account :
00000001%2C3bbc6812%2C00000000%2C00000000
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?file=1724.txt&search=00000001%2C3bbc6812%2C00000000%2C00000000

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ilkka Mononen
December 5, 2011 7:44 pm

To Rick.
I see that questio is not about MIME.
This strange key ————– to Foija Grepper founds all the same ————– emails
from subdirectories, its´ mainly a figure.
I think that MIME device do that, and files that i found are MIME devices bacup files.
??? ,, maybe MIME device destroys senders ID from original message when sending
for safety reasons?
But Jim says that in ZIP files they are messages “FAX” number, maybe because
they are not sended at all.
Te me it seems to be quite simply, nobody has destroyed anything, FOIA files are
only been taken out orginal file structure tree, and they are difficult to find.
I took back that “slimeball”, they just intruded to my pc,s so heawily, yesterday i must
change 5 times my password, and reload operating system, so i´am evil.
I´m sorry!
Ilkka.

Ilkka Mononen
December 4, 2011 11:16 am

Who cares about some MIME format?
Is there something inresting on Mike Hulmes emails.
http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?search=507784

Editor
December 4, 2011 11:50 am

Ilkka Mononen says:
December 4, 2011 at 10:32 am
> MIME has nohthing to do with that.
> Seems that you are holding a phoney climate blog.
> Maybe slimebollers called you an alaarm phone.
> Mime tool is on right upper corner on screen.
My systems don’t have a MIME tool, and I have no idea what yours might do.
Slimebollers didn’t call me. My involvement with Email goes back to ARPAnet days, see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc414 and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc542.txt . I don’t have development experience with MIME, but I understand it well enough.
One of your previous posts referred to file 2803.txt. While I missed the .zip file from the first site it was stored on, I copied from the second. The file starts with:

date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:39:41 +0100 (BST)
from: J Mitchell [I’ll redact Email addresses – Ric]
subject: Re: your advice sought
to: m.hulme@….uk (Mike Hulme)
Hi Mike,
1. Can you send me the message in plain text – I couldn’t read it
2. Gabi Hegerl is here. We are interested in the state of the NAO in
HadCM2 which Tim has been looking at.
Can you FAX pictures of the NAO index (model and observed) so we can
make some subjective judgement on
(a) the frequency
(b) the amplitude
(c0 the pattern
of the model relative to obsevations
thanks
John
>
> –=====================_867848803==_
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”
>
> Dear John,
>
> Please read the attached letter and statement which you will find
> self-explanatory. We would be grateful for your thoughts on the idea, its

So, this starts out with John Mitchell replying to Mike Hulme to say he couldn’t read an attachment and would rather have it in “plain text” – good ol’ ASCII.
The mail header is reduced from the actual mail header, and I’m certain that the MIME instructions are among those discarded. Also, the first part of the Email has lost its MIME header.
The second part still has its MIME header. The “867848803” looks like a Unix time stamp. Let’s see:

$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Jun 21 2007, 14:06:12)
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(867848803)
'Wed Jul  2 09:06:43 1997'

I expected July 7th, perhaps this is Email forwarded twice. That would explain why the mail looks as though the Email got a “> ” prefix as part of the reply process. My mailer would does that too.
The Email continues:
> execution and the content of the statement.
>
> Mike
>
> –=====================_867848803==_
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”alcamo.doc”
> Content-type: application/msword; name=”alcamo.doc”; x-mac-type=”42494E41″; x-mac-creator=”4D535744″
> Content-transfer-encoding: base64
>
> 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAAAAAAA
> EAAANQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAADIAAAD/////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////s
> pcEARwAJCAAAABK/AAAAAAAAEAAAAAAABAAALCAAAA4AYmpiao7ZjtkAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AAAJBBYAVy4AAOyzAQDsswEAEBwAAAAAAAAbAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD//w8AAAAA
The “.doc” file suggests Microsoft Word, and that’s confirmed with “application/msword”. The “x-mac-type” keyword suggests it was sent by a Mac user.
I haven’t looked at BASE64 encoding in ages, basically it selects 64 printable characters and uses each to convey 6 bits of data in each character. There’s no compression of source or output, and the bunch of “////…” is typical of MS Word files (likely a bunch of zero bytes, I haven’t bothered to check.
There are a few Emails with BASE64 attachements. I haven’t bothered to decode them, I assume others have.
At the bottem of the Email:
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
> AA==
> –=====================_867848803==_
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”
>
>
> —————————————————————————–
> Dr Mike Hulme tel: +44 …
> Climatic Research Unit fax: +44 …
This is just the end of the .doc file (maybe As are all zeros and slashes are all ones) and then a new MIME part that is just Hulme’s signature file.
At any rate, it is all about MIME, and not at all about ZIP7 passwords.
Please abandon this pursuit and get back to on topic items.
-Ric

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ric Werme
December 4, 2011 12:14 pm

“Please abandon this pursuit and get back to on topic items”
Do you really think that there is some password to ZIP files.
Data is available at TXT. mode, we must only find it,, and look
what it says.
Sooner or later i will found something intresting, and now i´m not alone, thanks Jim an others,
tahats was my point to come here fom our “suburb. “.
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Editor
December 4, 2011 12:14 pm

I wrote:
> At any rate, it is all about MIME, and not at all about ZIP7 passwords.
Looking back at the Emails, _Jim noted:
3) I now show the two lines next to each other:
> -=====================_867848803==_
> -=====================_??? ==_
> Note the change from: “867848803” (9 characters) to: “??? ” (4 characters including the trailing space). What accounts for this change?
and later:
> Update: The 9 numeric characters were probably altered as part of an automated phone number masking script being applied to the file before upload to the web site.
So yes, that part of the MIME data appears to be related the general Email/phone number hiding changes done by that site. As Jim mentioned, you should download the full .zip file and access the files from that to avoid getting tripped up by changes to the files in the Web archives.

Editor
December 4, 2011 12:27 pm

> Update: The 9 numeric characters were probably altered as part of an automated phone number masking script being applied to the file before upload to the web site.
And another thing – it looks like the unmodifed text is stored at the echowho site, but the hiding is done as part of the display process, hence Ilkka’s search for http://www.ecowho.com/foia.php?search=867848803 matched the lines that were displayed with “??? “.
I recall reading a note from the developer saying he did that for Email addresses, looks like he is trying to do it for things that look like phone numbers too.
Just another reason to work with the original files.

Ilkka Mononen
Reply to  Ric Werme
December 4, 2011 12:55 pm

There is also empty spaces on mails, Has the mime engine cleared orginal message when sended.
And sometimes sender with device settings left orginal MIME message us decode to txt.
I think that it is nothing unusual in MIME messages.
Same climate politics as on txt. messages.
Anyway they uses FAX numbers,, and when i get them, then i,ll find the corresponding
emails.
If there is nothing, so what?

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