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Greenpeace has issued a report stating that Amazon loggers have employed computer hackers to help them work illegally. The hackers have been breaking into the system in the Brazilian province of Pará to change the transport permits issued by the government. As the report explains: “To be exported from Pará, each shipment of timber requires one of these transport permits, and the volume of timber in each shipment is… Read More

The approval came the same week as a final approval of 802.17, the Resilient Packet Ring standard. An original project authorization request (PAR) was approved in July 2001 for the EFM group to work on three areas: point-to-point copper over existing copper plant at 10-Mbit/sec speeds at distances to 750 meters; point-to-point optical fiber at speeds up to 1 Gbit/sec at distances out to 10 km; and point-to-multipoint fiber at the… Read More