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Hackers Strike Climate-Research Center, Hoping to Change the Debate
By admin | November 24, 2009
Hackers Strike Climate-Research Center, Hoping to Change the Debate
More than 1,700 private e-mail messages were illegally nabbed from a university-based climate-science lab by computer hackers, with the apparent goal of discrediting the authors’ research on global warming just days before a major climate summit begins.
The incident is an unusual one. Though data breaches happen almost every week in higher education, most involve Social Security numbers or other university records, and the biggest concern is usually identity theft. In this case,
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