The Hack That Changed the World: Ep 2 - On the Trail
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Who was behind the 2009 hack and leak of emails that fuelled climate change sceptics?
Tracking down the police officer in charge of the original investigation into ‘Climategate’, Gordon Corera hears about the list of suspects and meets with Britain’s top cyber spy.
Producer: Sally Abrahams Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Gordon Carra and this is seriously from BBC Radio 4. In episode 2 of The |
| 0:45.3 | Hack that changed the world I'm diving deep into the original investigation |
| 0:49.7 | into the climate gate hack of 2009 as I seek to find out who was behind it. |
| 0:55.0 | The phone rang and it was someone ringing me from New Zealand, asking me about my emails. I had no idea what |
| 1:06.6 | they were talking about. In 2009 hackers stole thousands of emails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia and |
| 1:16.3 | posted them online. |
| 1:18.1 | They were using this as the dirty evidence that there was something wrong with the science. |
| 1:23.0 | Climate sceptics picked out certain phrases |
| 1:26.0 | to suggest the scientists were exaggerating the extent of global warming. |
| 1:31.0 | I immediately had a sense that we were dealing something rather serious with the potential |
| 1:35.2 | to effect and influence world events. |
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