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India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory
darkstar019 writes The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes. The list includes code sharing websites like Pastebin, Github and Sourceforge. As of now, these websites are still up. From the article: "Officials from the department of Information Technology and the department of telecom were not available for comment. 'These are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it,' said one government official who requested anonymity."
Copy, paste, remove, delete?
This is why we invented nukes, people.
When developing FOSS is a crime, only criminals will develop FOSS.
"You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it"
OH, the humanity!
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Not sure why I haven't seen them lately but I used to get scads of results from them doing searches for code snippets.
Defending IP by destroying access to it? That makes sense, RIAA/MPAA. Go to the corner until you can play nice!
I'd request anonymity too, if I went around in public saying stupid crap like that.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Yeah. These people think github is for terrorists. This is who you are outsourcing all your work to. Fucking brilliant.
What a surprise; the best vector for attacking Indians is via copy & paste code snippets.
I'm going to use Slashdot for anti-Indian purposes and maybe get this site blocked as well.
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Clueless government machinery at work here. Someone needs to educate these idiots that "code" in this context means "sequence of instructions for the machine" and NOT "cipher instructions for the terrorists". Github is the last place in the world a terrorist would signup for. If terrorists thought logically, they wouldn't be terrorists in the first place.
Now THAT wold be serious.
Nuff said.
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can't have that. they might be put in the wrong order against rules.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
10 print "pasting code on teh internets is dangerous"
20 goto 10
- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Yarg! It's time to outlaw opposable thumbs.
Why with opposable thumbs you could build something which flashes in big giant neon letters that the Indian government is stupid and reactionary, and meddling with things they can't even grasp.
Just like every other fucking moronic government in the world.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
when it is the spoiled brats like you that think the entire world exists for your own benefit, and that we should be honored for the privilege of cleaning up after you?
Usual outsourced programming involves finding chunks of vaguely related existing code, smashing them together, beating on them till they compile, calling it done.
If this includes StackExchange they'll be completely dead in the water.
This is how they obtain the means to kill freedom
Through their unfettered access to text-sharing. This Internets must be stopped.
The Indian government has banned websites under the pretext that ISIS is using them for anti-Indian purposes.
A pretext is a fake reason, not simply a reason you take issue with.
Also, from the article:
Websites like Pastebin don't host any content but are a platform for users to paste text.
How does Pastebin not host content? That's exactly what it exists to do, isn't it? In pretty much the purest possible form.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
in order to lose any war. Let's cut off electricity because certainly enemies use it too.
If the ISPs want to ignore the ban, they've got good ammunition. The ban lists a bunch of "URLs", including things like "http://vimeo.com/" and "https://archive.org". Does it ban URLs like "http://vimeo.com/some-movie-here" or "https://archive.org/whatever"? Nope, just the front pages of the websites :-). Then there's also the problem that most ISPs don't serve URLs, they transmit IP packets and maybe also serve domain names and email mailboxes, so technically the ISP is just connecting you to 107.162.132.45 port 80, not to http://vimeo.com./
Does this incompetence mean that the government of India can't hassle ISPs that don't do what the censors wanted them to do, rather than what they asked them to? Sadly, probably not.
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If malicious code is being passed around well known public forums then deal with that code. Hey! Why not encourage the eyeballs and brain cells of visitors to report hacking code requests. It could be done because most people won't have the slightest thing to do with terrorists and hackers.
It's an attitude problem. Make it easy for me to report something suspicious and make it easy for me to believe I'm doing something valuable and sensible by talking to clued-up people then I will. OTOH Why bother with these twits.
Were this any other country, I'd give this about 48 hours to get reversed. Since this is the Indian bureaucracy we are talking about, in may be more like two weeks for this to trickle through the system. But when you the take the fastest growing industry in the nation, that pays the best wages, and is your only hope for keeping the best and brightest from emigrating to greener pastures, and basically torpedo it, somebody is going to notice.
Hey, the block will take about a week to get enforced here! I can still access each one of those at my home, office and mobile. India is slow. And mark my words, nobody gives two shits about this block. Those who care about github, will still be able to access it. At least I will. We have had dailymotion blocked for months. I didn't even know until yesterday when everybody went up in arms about github. Because dailymotion never went down for me.
Incompetency pervades everything here. The ones ordering the block did it because they are incompetent. The ones supposed to enforce it are also incompetent.
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How does Pastebin not host content? That's exactly what it exists to do, isn't it? In pretty much the purest possible form.
I guess parent wanted to say "Pastebin don't host any (of their) content".
Their out-sourcing industry would go under...
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"These are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it," said one government official who requested anonymity.
These sentences will live forever! Can't wait for the memes.
Honestly, my BS detector is beeping. This has to be a hoax, right?