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US Homeland Security mistakenly takes down 84,000 websites
US AUTHORITIES mistakenly took down 84,000 websites as part of its Operation Save the Children campaign.
You can't make this stuff up.
The US Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Cyber Crimes Center took control of a number of domains as part of its campaign against child pornography. While it was taking down domains it suspected of participating in the dissemination of child pornography, it took down legitmate web hosting outfit Mooo.com.
Mooo.com hosts 84,000 subdomains, all of which were knocked offline as part of ICE's action. The websites that went down were replaced with a placeholder image informing visitors that the domain name had been seized by the Feds.
It took three days before some of the subdomains were re-enabled and the placeholder image was removed.
Although the websites hosted at Mooo.com are returning to normal service there are many irate users. One affected website owner told Torrentfreak, "At first, the legitimacy of the alerts seems to be questionable - after all, what reputable agency would display their warning in a fancily formatted image referenced by the underlying HTML? I wouldn't expect to see that."
While no one would argue against ICE's actions of taking down websites that are involved with child pornography, such mistakes are certainly embarrassing and have the potential to cause real harm to non-criminal online services.
We must hope that ICE won't make similar mistakes and let the bad guys get away while catching innocents in friendly fire. µ
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Sounds awfully like the IWF here in the UK (which, frankly, I'm surprised at the lack of coverage about)...
http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/index.php?id=468
http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/index.php?id=566
http://www.beusergroup.co.uk/index.php?id=598
Welcome to Obama land the place of lost freedom and the powerful police state.....once called the land of the free they sold their freedom in fear!!!!
the actual target site was hit along with the 84,000. Had nothing to do with children, it was to cut off the competition between two companies. Strong arm criminal activity being covered up by a supposed mistake.
Homeland Security and ICE are used as Muscle by the back door mob, and they don't even know it LOL
The People get the government they deserve.
Need to do something about that ICE, huh? We need Kuang Grade, Mark Eleven.
As usual, the Department of Homeland Security (or the American Schutzstaffel) has demonstrated their extreme competence and careful self-restraint, by avoiding accidental take-downs of Web sites that pose no threat to anyone.
Oh, wait, they fucked up again, as usual, didn't they? Never mind.
So the UK police want the right to switch off websites without having to talk to Nominet first, eh?...
Another shining example of government efficiency. This is what America has become. People too damn lazy to get off their asses to verify anything for certain.