Brazilian hackers blamed for aiding Amazon deforestation
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Malicious hackers have been charged with all manner of misdeeds, from mounting the biggest military hack ever to sending Viagra to Bill Gates to crashing sewerage systems. On Friday, Greenpeace accused cybercrooks of conspiring to allow actions that threaten the balance of nature by helping to destroy the Amazon rainforest.
Some Brazilian states used a computerised allocation system to levy how much timber can be logged in each area. However, logging firms attempted to subvert these controls by hiring hackers to break systems and increase the companies' allocations.
Greenpeace reckons these types of computer swindles were responsible for the excess export of 1.7 million cubic metres of timber (or enough for 780 Olympic-sized swimming pools, as the group helpfully points out) before police broke up the scam last year. Brazilian authorities are suing logging firms for 2 billion reais (US$833m).
Federal authorities are due to release more details of the prosecution of 107 logging and charcoal firms later on Friday, Greenpeace reports. A total of 202 people are facing prosecution in the case, it adds. ®
COMMENTS
yawn...
but hold on just a minute!
SO..... brazil cuts and sells trees,
which might make the GREENHOUSE effect,
which in turn helps their trees to grow faster!
(clue is in the name surely, or has the greenhouse effect been rebadged under a more scary name nowadays)
@AC
"Some restaurants where using some simple tools to erase from the databases of their POS programs some huge percentage of tickets not printed as invoices..."
And some get nailed for it:
http://www.vancouversun.com/Technology/Cooking+books/1061260/story.html
Hey - am I the only person who read the headline on this story and got confused trying to guess how Amazon.com was reakted to deforestration?
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