Indian Telecom Authority Releases a Million Email IDs, Taken Down By Hackers

knwny writes: In a bizarre move that threatens the privacy of over a million internet users in India, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the list of email IDs from which it received responses regarding net neutrality. Most of these responses were sent by the general public following a massively popular online campaign to protect Internet neutrality in India. The regulatory body says that it has received large number of comments from the stakeholders on its Consultation paper on "Regulatory Framework for OTT services". So to aid the reading of comments, it has divided them into three blocks — "comments from the service providers," "comments from the service providers' association" and "comments from other stakeholders'"(this includes individuals, organizations, consulting firms etc). In the meantime, the TRAI website remains inaccessible after a DDoS attack by Anonymous India, the hacker collective, apparently in retaliation for the data release.

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Re: Email IDs?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought this is a good thing. Doesn't data want to be free? The prevailing meme on Slashdot is that there is too much hidden information during the regulation formulation process. In this case the regulator is making the information available. This way an astroturfing campaign would be exposed.