Feds accidentally delete California...

[Kristijntje]

...'s ca.gov domain used by California government websites.

Even the government shudders when someone says they're from the government and they're here to help.

Case in point: A hacker's diversion of traffic from a California county government Web site to a porn purveyor spiraled into IT chaos yesterday after a countermeasure applied from Washington essentially "deleted the ca.gov domain."

Order was restored only after seven hours of frenzied coast-to-coast communications and a "forced propagation" of ca.gov network systems...

full article: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20192

[rose]

[jezebel]

Another example of government stupidity:

DHS flunks e-mail administration 101, causes mini-DDoS

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...-ddos.html

It started off early Wednesday as an innocuous request from a North Carolina businessman to the Homeland Security Department. He was responding to a daily antiterrorism bulletin by asking that it be sent to another e-mail address.

But by afternoon, a programming flaw involving the “reply” function transformed that e-mail message into a flood of more than 2.2 million messages nationwide that clogged the e-mail accounts of government and private experts on domestic security, including the operators of an Illinois nuclear power station.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/us/04secure.html?_r=3&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[BellisimaJ.]

But by afternoon, a programming flaw involving the “reply” function transformed that e-mail message into a flood of more than 2.2 million messages nationwide that clogged the e-mail accounts of government and private experts on domestic security, including the operators of an Illinois nuclear power station.