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One possibility is that there were no 'hacker' types. The scan might have just been given to them by someone sympathetic to their cause, and the easiest way to
by sudhirj 11y ago
One possibility is that there were no 'hacker' types. The scan might have just been given to them by someone sympathetic to their cause, and the easiest way to avoid investigation while still getting press is to carry in an unplugged Kinect and claim to have made the scan yourself.
- syntheticnature 11y agoI'm surprised to see little thought along this line. I'd be more surprised if there weren't a number of sympathetic folks with access.
- mesozoic 11y agoI think this is really the Occam's razor answer.
- inanutshellus 11y agoFTA, they state this as "the prevailing theory", and that the scan file was stolen directly from the museum's servers or from the manufacturer of the gift-shop reproductions' servers.
- 0xffff2 11y agoThe article's claim isn't quite the same. It claims it's possible that "real hackers" broke into the museums servers and stole the data. It's a lot simpler to believe that an employee of the museum with access to the data simply stole the data they had access to in the course of their employment.
- samstave 11y agoWhy would a museum not want to have art scanned? Especially antiquities. Whats the logic behind it?
- shaftway 11y agoThe museum already has a high-resolution scan. They sell 3d reproductions.
- fapjacks 11y agoMy first, immediate thought was that it was an inside job.