Well, I trust them, and apply occams razor as said in this thread (being as I'm an ex-information theorist by trade anyhow) than I do yourself going 'oogly-boogly' with no scientific or other technical background at all.
Edit : yep, 30 hours is sooo.. easy to fake. And, fo course, Vanity Fair has no history at all of reporting stories unpopular to the administration *sigh*.