On Blocking Blogs in India and Blogspot JS Injection
Posted in Civic Issues by wayne.porter on July 17th, 2006 BoingBoing reports that the Indian government has blocked some major blog destinations. Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs
I am anti-censorship and dislike the fact governments seek to impose their will on citizens.
However, from a security standpoint the blocking of *.blogspot.com doesn’t surprise me at all.
Not when you have this ridiculous and unsafe system setup and still going on…
Still I would prefer freedom over safety. Better to get pwned by JS injection than to have reading liberties removed.
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