I have confirmed that www.drroyspencer.com has been hacked and rendered inoperable.
Dr. Spencer confirms this in an email exchange with me this AM and writes:
“Apparently some Indonesian female hacker.”
Whether this is a direct attack on his views about climate, an indirect attack via a hired gun, or just some kid looking to hold up a trophy for others to see is unclear at this point.
It does point to the risks though of running an independent server. My best advice to anyone in the climate issue is to run on wordpress.com rather than an independent server as they keep everything running smoothly and up to date against the latest security threats.
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It was the Chinese!!!
It was an inside job.
How very distressing for him. Can his records be retrieved?
I feel for Roy. It’s very upsetting when something you’ve put a lot of time and effort into gets vandalised. Here’s hoping he can get a resolution sorted out quickly.
Ah, Dr. Spencer will be the Modern C.S. Lewis as he writes the CRUTape Letters. The similarity between the Character Screwtape and the CRUTape bunch is merely deliberately delicious. (Apologies to the people on the “unread in the classics” end of the spectrum.)
Max
Yes, showing the data is dangerous.
Thanks to Dr. Roy Spencer we know what the satellite global temperature is, and we get it as soon as they can compute it. http://www.drroyspencer.com will soon be up again, I hope.
I tried it earlier today, really nice rock tune!
I think it was KISS!
Jihad! er, Crusade!
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Can we have a 2-year long investigation by Norfolk police please?
Sorry to hear about that
If it can be determined to be an attack on his views about climate, is anybody keeping a scorecard on the number of times skeptic sites have been hacked as opposed to verifiable instances at AGW sites?
Most likely, Roy never kept up with the general backend maintenance of his WordPress installation.
Didn’t know that female Indonesians were into hacking. *Probably* a front for the WWF or Greenpeace, but that’s merely speculation of the most egregious kind.
The foundations of society are crumbling.
See:
The Harp of Alfred, GK Chesterton
The Book That Made Your World Vishal Mangalwadi
Was her last name Soetoro?
Guess they’re getting desperate.
About WordPress’ competence, WP requires reduction of PC security beyond my comfort zone, and requires acceptance of locally stored objects that I will not allow – cookies, persistent identity elements and document objects. Why is evil behavior by a hacker acceptable when it is required for a benefit?
Read Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop IT ~350 pages
http://futureoftheinternet.org/static/ZittrainTheFutureoftheInternet.pdf
It was not really a hack. It was just some grad student looking for Dr. Trenberth’s missing heat.
He did it himself to draw attention to the AGW hoax!
To me, michievous hacking, deliberate and sustained sabotage, or another Carrington event are a far greater threat to our way of life than the difficult to discern climate change.
tonyb
Gabby did it! I discovered yesterday, Feb 27, every time I tried to access Dr. Spencer’s website a short message by Gabby came up on my screen.
Has anyone else noticed that incidences of hacking have risen in step with increases in CO2? We are seeing more and more examples of extreme hacking. Soon, we will reach the point of no return. The modern world is going to be destroyed by runaway hacking unless we smarten up and destroy it first by prohibiting the use of fossil fuels.
The problem with using the corporate “cloud” services – WordPress, Blogger, Amazon EC3, etc – is that they are highly susceptible to political pressure.
You only have to look at what one letter from an asshat senator did to Wikileaks relationship with Amazon and PayPal to see that.
There’s no easy way to be a dissenter.
“In the Empire of Lies, truth is treason” – and treason is a dangerous occupation.
Gary is correct, I haven’t been proactive about site security. My Bad. I guess assuming I’ve been flying under most persons’ radar can cause a collision with a mountain.
I’ve just logged on to the site