Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, January 11, 2010 12:01:00 PM
This morning I contacted Norfolk Constabulary with a view to finding out if they had yet ascertained whether the breach at the Climatic Research Unit was a leak or a hack. I have just received a response which is frankly amazing:
Norfolk Constabulary continues its investigations into criminal offences in relation to a data breach at the University of East Anglia. During the enquiry officers have been working in liaison with the Office of the Information Commissioner and with officers from the National Domestic Extremism Team. The UEA continues to co-operate with the enquiry however major investigations of this nature are of necessity very detailed and as a consequence can take time to reach a conclusion. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage.
Student applications are up 30pc this year according to officials - with a recent upsurge ahead of the January 15 deadline.
The news comes as Norfolk police reveal they have been working with officers from a national unit set up to respond to the threat of extremism to investigate the theft in November, which saw thousands of emails from the climate research unit published on a public website.
I don't know what hacked emails exposing crooked climate scientists have to do with a "extremism unit" doing the investigating into who broke into the server. If anything, the climate scientists are the ones who need looking into by the extremism unit.
This should to be interesting to follow.