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Hackers Target Indonesian Government Over Online Porn Ban

An AFP newswire article, via NASDAQ.com, reports that:

Hackers took over an Indonesian government website for several hours to protest against a new law banning online pornography, the information ministry said Friday.

The protesters posted a message Thursday on the ministry of information website challenging it to "prove that the law was not drafted to cover the government's stupidity." Indonesia's parliament passed a law Tuesday against producing or accessing websites with pornographic or violent content.

"The message seemed to be directed at the law that was just passed by parliament," said ministry official Ferdinandus Setu, adding the site was taken down for a period but was now back to normal.

The new law, which has still to be approved by the president, provides for a maximum penalty of six years in jail or a fine of up to IDR1 billion ($110,000) for disseminating pornographic material online.

The ministry said it would start distributing software Saturday to allow Internet users to block pornographic sites.

posted by Fergie @ 3/28/2008 12:55:00 PM