Hacker collective, Anonymous India on Saturday hacked and brought
down IIPM websites, IIPM.in and IIPM.edu. The hacking comes as a
reaction to the DOT order which asked Internet service providers (ISPs)
to block over 73 urls which had articles that were critical of IIPM and
its director Arindam Chaudhuri.
The attack on www.iipm.in also affected www.iipm.edu as this website
internally links to www.iipm.in. The websites were offline for nearly
nine hours due to the attack, according to this Times of India report.
The directive to block these urls was issued after an order by a
Gwalior district court. The list also includes a July 2012 notice by
issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC)
which states that “IIPM is not a university within the meaning of
section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956″. When we tried accessing this Url it
was indeed blocked, however since it is a PDF, we were able to see the
actual document in quick view option on Google search.
The UGC page being block has also sparked off jokes on Twitter that a
government page has been blocked for the first time. And of course,
many sites whose articles were blocked have changed urls for the
offending pieces, so the ban hasn’t been 100 percent effective.
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