Conservation Biology magazine cites several incidents where technologies introduced to simplify the work of animal protection groups and state authorities have been hijacked or turned against the animals they were meant to protect. Poachers have been caught using these new toolsets to reduce the amount of work and time they spend hunting down and killing endangered species. The most technically advanced of these incidents occurred in India, when poachers hacked GPS collars fitted on India’s Bengalese tiger population in 2013, when Indian authorities used encryption to secure GPS coordinates and sent the data to a private email inbox.
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