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Hackers Help Companies Illegally Harvest Lumber in the Amazon

If you've been wondering why we haven't moved to completely electronic record keeping systems yet, here is a tale of an environmentally disastrous hack made possible by the lack of paper records. For years, Brazilian logging companies have been using hackers to break into government systems to alter and issue permits that have allowed them to fell much more timber than would normally be allowed. ...