Cyberpoaching - hacking GPS to find endangered animals

  • 5 March 2014
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"The attempted hacking of a Bengal tiger's GPS collar in the Panna Tiger Reserve last July alerted the world to a new kind of threat to its wildlife: cyberpoaching. Since then, many proactive wildlife experts have been trying to figure out how to fight a poacher who sits half a world away from the animals they're targeting."
 
Pretty sad that the technology used to protect endangered species is now being used to target them.  
 


Source: Mashable

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They could do with a taste of their own medicine.
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They could do with a taste of their own medicine.
Good point - maybe we could trace their GPS hacking back to them too.  Reminds me of this scene from The Big Hit (warning, NSFW language) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw3G80bplTg
 
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How sad is that Cyperpoaching..unbelievably notorious....yes Jasper give them there own medicine.

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