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How do you illegally log a rainforest? With hackers
Brazil has turned to tech as a way to stem rampant logging in its Amazonian rainforests, but instead of logging less wood, "creative" logging companies simply hired hackers to make their permits look legal.
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It's not as though these companies were in other way model corporate citizens; the hacker hirings appear to be part and parcel of their approach to business. Prosecutor Daniel Avelino said that "almost half of the companies involved in this scam have other lawsuits pending for environmental crimes or the use of slave labor, among other things."
technology  Ecology  logging 
december 2008 by keithly

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