Thursday, August 5, 2010

15 minutes of Porn telecast in Indonesian parliament

Hackers have managed to infiltrate an internal TV broadcast at Indonesia’s parliament. Rather than seeing the expected political programming, staff there were subjected to 15 minutes of pornographic imagery.

The reason for the hack is unclear, but suspicion rests with plans to start blocking pornography on the Internet from August 11 causing a retaliation. ISPs have been told to implement the block, and this has no doubt spread anger amongst some citizens.
An apology has been issued by the deputy speaker of the House. But surely this shows that a block probably isn’t going to stop pornography being downloaded in the country, and that such a block isn’t wanted anyway.

Read more at BBC News.

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