this is an amazing link. Frustrating that we didn't manage to make complete archive of Dolan's social media before he went dark. Time to dig into the other likes. Likes on a single Danchenko page were the Rosetta stone to his "network".
Gordon Carera of BBC Radio (in related but separate programming to The Trick) has second instalment online of Hack That Changed the World. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Second instalment describes dead ends, closes with teaser that next episode goes "east to Russia".
2/ in 2nd instalment, police told him that climategate hacker used proxy servers all over the world in operation. I expect that Corera will talk a lot about Mr FOIA using a proxy server in Russia, while being silent about his use of proxy servers in US and Germany.
3/ I wonder if he'll mention the upside-down Bellingcat analysis purporting to deduce Mr FOIA timezone from epoch timestamps in nomenclature of CG1 emails, which Bellingcat claimed to show +05:00. But they got it upside-down: if anything, it was -05:00 Eastern N America.
2/ The Trick portrayed Climategate hack as part of conspiracy by Russian intel services, US fossil fuel corporations and "follow the money" to derail Copenhagen, rather than spat between CRU and Climate Audit about withholding data, together with open-door UEA web "security"
3/ we left off at beginning of August shortly after I
had exposed that CRU, after refusing station data due to supposed confidentiality agreements, had nonetheless placed data on a public FTP site (which it took private after exposure while issuing new passwords to CRU staff).
86/ I had left off narrative of events in summer 2009 at Mole article at Climate Audit on Jul 25 climateaudit.org/2009/07/25/a-m…. I had announced that I was now in possession of version of very data that CRU refused on basis world order would collapse if released to non-academic.
87/ An additional reason for riffing on this segment of The Trick is that, according to chronology of events in eventual police report, the Climategate hack did not begin until Sep 2009; their chronology also noted summer FOI requests. Metadata (to be discussed) support mid-Sep.
68/ here's a screengrab of police analyst supposedly pointing out comment at Climate Audit which contained the original link to the Climategate zipfile. Take a look, especially old-time blog readers.
69/ next, the analyst points to a picture of not-me and a woman who is not-my-wife and says, This is Steve McIntyre. The picture in my Twitter avatar (which is 16 years old now) also shows me in front of a tree.
late last night (and early this morning), I watched the ABC hagiography of Christopher Steele, followed by the BBC hagiography (The Trick) of Phil Jones. Russiagate and Climategate. Both fictional.
I'm mentioned by name at beginning of The Trick, accompanied by a fake picture.
2/ much to say about both, but first an ironic comment. The "heroes" of The Trick, to the extent that there are any, are the square-jawed "reputation managers" who coached Jones up to appear before a Parliamentary Committee a few weeks later.
3/ they are Neil Wallis and Sam Bowen of Outside Organization - similar guys to Fusion GPS. Wallis, a former exec editor of tabloid News of the World, was arrested two years later in phone hacking scandal journalism.co.uk/news/phone-hac…, noted at CA climateaudit.org/tag/wallis/
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
BBC propaganda on Climategate airing at 8:30PM BDT. Jones to be portrayed as a hero, instead of vain temperature accountant who said "Why should I make data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it? climateaudit.org/2005/10/15/we-…
while Climategate hack clearly originated from Jones' refusal of temperature data, nearly all of the emails were about controversies on proxy reconstructions (Hockey Stick) and had nothing to do with CRU temperature data. This was not understood by left, right or academics
3/ also, I told readers at the time that there was no reason to expect anything untoward in the station data that Phil Jones was wrongfully concealing. More likely that Jones was 1) just being a prick; 2) concealing triviality of his temperature accountancy.