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French court throws out EDF guilty verdict in hacking case
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-02-06 20:08
A French appeals court on Wednesday threw out a 1.5 million euro ($2 million) fine against energy giant EDF, overturning a lower court's ruling that the company had been complicit in hacking the computers of Greenpeace in 2006.
EDF had appealed against the November 2011 decision by the Nanterre criminal court that a company it hired had hacked into confidential information on the computer of Yannick Jadot, then campaign director for the environmental group and now a Greens member of the European Parliament.
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French Fried: US allegedly hacked Sarkozy's office with Flame
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-11-22 01:37
The French news magazine L'Express has reported that in May computers in the offices of France's then-president Nicolas Sarkozy were attacked by Flame, the malware jointly developed by the US and Israel to collect information on the Iranian nuclear program, and that staff at the Elysee Palace covered up the attack. "Hackers have not only managed to get to the heart of French political power," L'Express reported, "but they were able to search the computers of close advisers of Nicolas Sarkozy."
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French anti-piracy agency Hadopi only sued 14 people in 20 months
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2012-09-06 04:19
In 2010, French authorities instated a group of bureaucrats whose purpose was to enforce copyright protection on the Internet in France. The group, called Hadopi, was in charge of enforcing the law of the same name, which would take requests from rights holders for take downs when someone with a French IP address tried to download a P2P file containing illegally procured media.
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France backs away from Hadopi
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2012-08-07 00:12
The French government is counting the cost of having copyright enforcement shifted from the corporate to the public sector – and it’s not pleased at what it sees.
Hadopi, the body charged with hunting down freetards under France’s three-strikes law, has sent a million warning e-mails and 99,000 registered letters. This seemingly-impressive pursuit of Internet evildoers has, however, resulted in a scant 134 cases being examined for prosecution – and so far, zero cases have been escalated to the point where an Internet user has been disconnected.
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French t-shirt company registers hacking group Anonymous logo as its own
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2012-08-03 02:16
AN ONLINE French t-shirt supplier has taken on the might of the Anonymous hacking group by legally registering the outlaw group's logo and slogan as its own.
The supplier registered the Anonymous flagship identifiers with France's National Institute of Industrial Property and according to Anonymous, the registration has been granted.
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