Decocidio



Decocidio #ϴ  is an  anonymous ,  autonomous   collective  of  hacktivists which is part of  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_First! Earth First!],  a radical  environmental protest organisation, and adheres to  Climate Justice Action. In their  hacks  the group shows affiliation with the autonomous  Hackbloc  collective.

Name
The logo of the collective is an upper case theta preceded by a hash symbol or number sign. In many scripting languages the # introduces a comment that goes to the end of the line. The upper case theta was in 1969 made into an Ecology Symbol by cartoonist Ron Cobb, that later became associated with Earth Day. This letter of the Greek alphabet also pictured on the Ecology Flag used by American environmentalists in the 1970s.

 The name decocidio is a type of word play which refers to the act of killing code.[citation needed] The noun consists of the stem deco- and the suffix -cidio:

 deco- is an anagram for the word code

 -cidio originates from the Latin caedere, which means to kill. It's the Spanish variant of the suffix -cide, as in homicide (Sp.: homicidio)



Actions
On 23 July 2010 at 23:23 UTC, decocidio #ϴ targeted the public  website  of the  European Climate Exchange, a leading  marketplace  for  trading CO2 emissions  in Europe. The website showed a  spoof   homepage  for around 22 hours in an effort to promote the contention that  carbon trading  is a false solution to the  climate crisis