Above is a link to an article about the "climategate" email scandal. The gist of the story is that a server was hacked at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. The successful hacking led to the theft of thousands of e-mails that were later leaked onto the Internet. Some of these e-mails contained controversial information that made it seem as if many climate scientists had been involved in fraudulent behavior. Whether the e-mails verified fraudulent behavior is irrelevant to this blog post, but the fact that the e-mails were stolen in the first place is significant. I don't understand why a hacker was able to simply gain access to all e-mails at this University's Climate Research Unit after hacking the server. Why wasn't a better encryption system implemented if they knew they were sending and receiving e-mails with controversial and secretive information? I suppose if someone hacks a server they automatically have access to everyone's public key in that network, and any encryption system is useless.
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