So did UEA actually have "several" layers of password protection on their computer systems?

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#climategate‬ news conf - emphasise UEA staff not involved - servers accessed via Internet. Several layers of password protection breached

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So clearly, CRU and others in the emails didn’t think twice about sending around open access live links. As David M. Hoffer points out in his article, the researchers don’t seem to have a clue about security.