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+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites | from the our-bad dept. | posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 16, @18:53 (Censorship) |https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites?from=newsletter +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chaonici writes "Last Friday, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized ten websites accused of selling counterfeit goods or trafficking in child pornography. However, in the process, about [0]84,000 unrelated websites were taken offline when the government mistakenly seized the domain of a large DNS provider, FreeDNS. By now, the mistake has been corrected and most of the websites' domains again point to the sites themselves, rather than [1]an intimidating domain seizure image. In a press release, the DHS praised themselves for taking down those ten websites, but completely failed to acknowledge their massive blunder." Discuss this story at: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/2239245/US-Govt-Mistakenly-Shuts-Down-84000-Sites?from=newsletter#commentlisting Links: 0.http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/ 1.http://torrentfreak.com/images/C3_Banner_2011_02.jpg -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum* Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
