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French Power Company Fined For Hacking Greenpeace

Posted by samzenpus on from the rubber-boat-envy dept.

judgecorp writes "Electricite de France (EDF) which uses nuclear reactors to generate the majority of France's electricity, has been found guilty of hacking into Greenpeace computers in 2006. EDF has been fined fined €1.5 million and ordered to pay Greenpeace a further half a million euros, for what the judge described as an act of 'industrial scale espionage.'"

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  1. Greenpeace == terrorists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why should we care, when their own tactics are used against them?

  2. Greenpeace will not surrender! by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So why are greenpeace using computers- don't computers use electricity?

    Doesn't electricity pollute the environment?
    Don't they know that the computer servers they use are powered by electricity stations that burn whale fat and endangered 3 legged Borneo toads as fuel?

    Hypocrites!

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    "That's the way to do it" - Punch