waste of carbon anyway..
irony : they've heard of it.
A carbon emissions trading registry in Austria has suspended operations until at least 21 January following a hacking attack earlier this month. The registry has been disconnected from the EU and UN carbon trading registries in response to the 10 January attack, details on which are unclear. A statement on the trading registry …
and encourage even more pollution, so long as they're (the rich folks) getting paid for it. in fact, in that case, more pollution = more profit.
it really has nothing to do with reducing pollution. only making money. hello ? it there anyone home in there ? time to wake up and smell the coffee folks.
You produce a product by belching black smoke in the air, hand over money to people with their own wind turbines and you get to claim your product is carbon neutral.
They don't refine their product to make it more environmentally friendlier. They just spend more money to hide it.
the carbon trading market is a reality. What is also a reality is the laughable levels of security in place around what is a multi-million Euro market.
Account security it limited to a pre-generated user ID and passwords on a 90 day expiry. No tokens, no additional verification of identity, just a simple account that lets you trade millions of carbon certificates. Apart from a rather perfunctory plea not to answer phishing emails there is no further advice on the registry website on securing the accounts or managing access.
For something this valuable ( Holcim Romania lost something in the region of 20M Euro ) you'd think they could put in some decent security or at least offer advice to their account holders.