Californian government deletedFeared CalifornicationBy Nick Farrell: Thursday, 04 October 2007, 7:43 AM IN A DESPERATE bid to save Californian children form online porn, technology wizards at the Federal Government accidentally deleted the ca.gov domain.Responding to a call that a hacker had diverted traffic from a California county government Web site to a porn site, the Washington based IT people deleted the domain and went home.According to Network World, it took seven hours and a "forced propagation" of ca.gov network systems before everything was back to normal.It all started when the Transportation Authority of Marin Country was hacked. A department within the US General Services Administration in Washington oversees and polices the .gov domain panicked and made a change at a much more global level than probably was necessary.It made the changes without telling anyone and then the whole lot went down. Web access and e-mail services for government workers were all down too.The problem happened at 3pm and the Easterners who had taken down the domain name had trotted off home for the night. µ
