Wild animals information on public places also have bad consequences ?

[sanjay]

An article published on kaspersky blog on how poachers can use internet to kill engendered animals like tiger and rhino-

It is easily possible for a poacher (or a hacker hired by poacher) to break into the private information like email accounts of scientist that receive data from the GPS collars that wildlife conservationists attach to endangered species like tiger. Biologists and conservationist use these collars to study the behaviors and monitor the locations of such animals. So if the poachers get access of that information, they can monitor the migration patterns or in certain cases the real time locations of the tagged animals in order to track and ultimately kill them.

The Times of India publish an article in September 2013 (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/...826103.cms), in which hackers may have done just that: attempted to hack into an email account containing the relay information of an "Iridium GPS Satellite Collar" that had been attached to a tiger in the Panna Tiger Reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India.

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National Geographic also publish a article (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...s-science/) a month later. Hackers (poachers) managed to gather the proper credentials to the email account of one of the three men with legal access to the tiger’s GPS collar information. For five months, the GPS collar had been updating that email account with the exact location of the tiger. The collar relayed coordinates every hour for the first three months and every four hours for the following two months until the collar’s battery died and the transmissions went dark. This would be a great information for the kind of person that is in endangered animals body part illegal business.

Luckily, the server maintaining this email address caught the hackers attempt and information. The poacher or hacker that was trying to access that email account is located in Dehradun, India. The hacking attempt was originating from an IP block located more than 1000 KM away in Pune, India. The server flagged the login attempt and blocked it.

Dr. Krishnamurthy Ramesh, the head of the tiger monitoring program at the reserve, told that even if the poachers did get the email account details, they would have had a difficult time in deciphering the information. Reply