they were shipping lines
but it was a smack down
Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have seized a tonne of cocaine, a tonne of heroin and a suitcase stuffed with €1.3m after uncovering a massive drug smuggling operation that used hackers to break into the systems of shipping companies. According to the Netherlands public prosecutor (statement here in Dutch), a Netherlands …
.. and proud of it. Liberty is allowing other people to do stuff you don't approve of, yet which causes you no harm. As a fundamental principle, consenting adults in private can do whatever they like. OK, conspiracy to harm others is an exception, there are probably others.
I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't take drugs. I have no interest in the recreational use of substances that alter my perception etc and I am most certainly not "drug addled" in any way.
But if someone else wants to take these substances, why should they not be allowed to? More people die from tobacco related illnesses and accidents caused by drunk drivers than from illegal drugs. Legal drugs would, as has been pointed out many a time, allow the control of quality *and* permit Governments to raise tax on them, rather than pissing away huge amounts of money trying, as they have been for the last several decades to win an unwinnable "war on drugs".
"The hackers obtained access at two container terminals by using spear phishing and malware attacks directed at port authority workers and shipping companies, before changing the location and the delivery times of containers that had the drugs in them, according to the public prosecutor." link
"The whole scheme, eerily similar to the set-up of the plot of season 2 of The Wire, ..."
Also the Donald Westlake novel, "Dancing Aztecs" (although what's being smuggled is a valuable artifact, and the scheme is set before pervasive use of computers). Now I need to check out "The Wire", which gets recommended a lot and which I still haven't seen.