09-08-2010, 10:16 AM
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/IT-dept-goofs-up-shuts-sites/H1-Article1-597396.aspx"]IT dept goofs up, shuts sites[/url]
What kind of morons are these guys?
First they are stomping on Freedom of speech
Second, pinheads are blocking IP address.
third, they better hire IT guys to right order, these IAS/IPS officers are just useless.
Quote:Some lewd remarks made against Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil published on a website has led to blocking of hundreds of websites in India since August 9 causing inconvenience to lakhs of people. This happened apparently due to wrong interpretation of a Mumbai court for blocking the offending website http://donotdial100.webs.com by the Department of Information Technology (DIT).
Instead of blocking particular website, the DIT blocked the IP address :- 216.52.115.50 that hosted the offending website, resulting into blocking of hundreds of other websites hosted by webs.com as well.
Though the order mentions technical details of the offending website including the IP address, it talks of blocking only http://donotdial100.webs.com and not the domain server of webs.com.
Several website owners and Jerry Weinberger Director, Service and Retention webs.com have written to the Mumbai Police Cyber Division and to the DIT for rectifying it but nothing has been done.
Director General, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) in the DIT Gulshan Rai said: "This is a judicial order and I have requested the Mumbai Police and the website users to approach the court and get an appropriate order."
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But since the order also mentioned the I P address, the department also chose to block webs.com, an international hosting service provider for individuals, groups and organisations that are interested in building a website.
What kind of morons are these guys?
First they are stomping on Freedom of speech
Second, pinheads are blocking IP address.
third, they better hire IT guys to right order, these IAS/IPS officers are just useless.