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U.S. Government Shuts Down 84,000 Websites By Mistake!

Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names. One of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes. As a result of the authorities’ actions as well as the seizure, 84,00 subdomains were wrongly taken down as well. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: “Far too many children fall prey to sexual predators and all too often, these heinous acts are recorded in photos and on video”

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/02/us-government-shuts-down-84000-websites.html

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