Y rant on Mann hunt

The Yorkshire Ranter analyses the Climate Research Unity coverage in your friendly neighbourhood grauniad.

Robert P. points us to an analysis of the crack itself - kinda blah. Basically trawling through a misconfigured server by a script kiddie.

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