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Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov
An anonymous reader writes "A Network World reader whose brother works for a California state agency forwarded me an e-mail alert that his brother received: "The Department of Technology Services (DTS) has notified us that the Federal Government inadvertently deleted the CA.GOV domain. As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning.""
Terrorists we can handle. What really scares is an attack of the stupids.
doesn't sound like they deleted it to me, more like they routed it to nowhere, and propagated that route across the network and root DNS servers...
Walk with Music;
If only these idiots were running more of my life.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.
You're grossly over-estimating the competence of the federal government. The only thing surprising about this is that they didn't delete the entire .gov domain.
Why not use ca.us ?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Malice gets you fired, while stupidity gets excused and forgiven. Which would you prefer your actions to be seen as?
http://xkcd.com/386/
any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
California should be using state.ca.us anyway--then they wouldn't have had a problem. .gov is intended for the U.S. federal government.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.