The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) website was hacked on Monday by a hacker who left a message demanding a blanket ban on all websites containing explicit material.
The PTA website faced a database error for some time, and while its front page was not defaced, a page listing the demands of Zombie_KSA -- the hacker who had earlier defaced the Supreme Court website -- was inserted into the site's server.
Zombie_KSA left a defiant message on the PTA site for the Chairman Dr Muhammad Yaseen, stating:
“Ask yourself why Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is victim of ZombiE_KsA ? Baby I’m here to tell this **** world that we are Pakistan, not Pornistan...and Sir I need your help. Since you have powerful balls and I request you to take action to ban porn sites in Pakistan. Read it again I request you to BAN Pornographic sites in Pakistan.”
The hacker warned PTA to take measures to block online pornographic content in Pakistan within a week or face further consequences.
Pakistan's porn consumption
A 2010 Fox News report cited Pakistan as ranking number one in the world for porn-related search terms. The article dubbed the country as ‘Pornistan’ based on Google Trends and Insights, that identified large amounts of local users searching terms connected to sex.
According to most recent traffic rankings by analytics website Alexa, there are over a dozen pornographic websites in the top 100 websites visited by Pakistanis.
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Hacking is a crime no matter how noble the cause. The same hackers can ruin online business.
Come on! Men in Pakistan need sex too! We cant (shouldnt be) be promiscous, we cant marry early, What the hell are we supposed to do! We need porn!!!
The right-wing nuts seem to be more technically savvy than we thought. But seriously, as if there isn't enough sexual frustration in our society, I think - that at least for young bachelors - porn provided a relatively safe outlet for that.
Will PTI block it? (Sarcastic)
i appreciate the act to block the porn site . thanks Allah i am was the victim of this crap .
@Acorn Guts: You are right, Pakistan is not in the top 10, in fact not in top 88 countries who search such terms. Also people should not just read things they should do a thorough research. According to Alexa that there are "Dozens" porn websites visited by Pakistanis, this information is incorrect because i visited the link provided and there are just 4 websites with such content. To sum up, they Fox News and Google are just trying to avenge Pakistan because we let their propaganda of Drawing Prophet into a failure
well done PTA
keep it up...
Even if they do ban all the sites.. They cant monitor p2p technology , which is basically used as the main tool for sharing anything across the web.
Search ACTA Seems like there will be more to come Seems like time before censorship will be remembered as golden age of internet. If my suspicion comes true than Bye Bye to an open and free Internet culture.
Welcome to the land of stupidity. They have also banned all the websites ending with “shoes.com” try opening “aldoshoes.com” or “adidasshoes.com” or “onlineshoes.com”, any domain that ends with “shoes.com” have been banned by PTA. Its currently pushed on Wateen, and it looks like all the millions of domains ending with shoes.com will be banned on all networks soon. Just search “PTA banned shoes” on google. I think this will do no Good, You can’t ban porn, it can be easily accessed by proxies. But in blocking those websites PTA have blocked millions of legitimate websites....
please dont ban porn i love it
Over 1000 sites have been banned. its called free expression and porn is usually watched in private, it should not be a matter of the state to impose a specific morality on anyone. We live in a fascist state.
well what i think is that pakistan is an islamic country. porn should be banned. as it is destroying people. if only atleast video online streaming sites would be blocked that will be helpful. You will face shame until when not excited when you are gonna be with your wife. And due to porn you loose confidence and start having problems like cocaine addict. Believe me that thing is purely evil we dont say that we are pure but the pain is terrible.... believe me one time you are addict you cant get out of it..... v. hard it is. i've seen people that even after marriages they cannot leave this filth. plz have mercy on people and the womrn
Don't ban porn. Abaadi aur barh jayegi.
dear all, i think this is a good for pakistani people,s and all muslims .because we r wasting our time health wealth and every thing if we spend that time for searching and learning our religion and searching quran fact,s that 2day western scientist,s prove the truth.
Pakistan should ban the entire Internet, as it is an evil ZionistCIA/RAW tool to corrupt the hearts of the pure (yes, this is sarcasm).
@Mango Man: Well I checked google trends myself right now for words 'love, sex, porn' and I can tell you that Pakistan was not in top 10 in any of them. In fact US was at no.7 for all three trends. Also, I check Alexa and guess what? No porn sites in the top hundred. It might have been the case in 2004 etc. but certainly not anymore.
The footnote clearly states the research was conducted by Fox News ... need I say more?
did someone read the footnote - Pak is the #1 consumer of Porn in the World! Are we missing something here?
Porn is least of our worries. I'd rather have sick individuals at home stuck to their computers rather sick individuals in the streets stuck to their guns.
The number of comments in such news shows that how many people are really concern. my sample analysis says its more then 70%
Our all weather friend China is an expert in banning or blocking websites which make their people more intelligent. We can import their know-how to block sites and keep only sites adhering to Islamic teachings of 6th century.
The authorities have asked the Hacker to give them the list of porn sites to be banned...hehe
@aslam: How does it prevent rape??? it will promote rape coz once u watch it i'm sure u will have desires to try all those things out with someone.
Every philosophy including religion itself might die but porn will survive no matter how much anyone/any government or religious authority wants to ban it. Live with it. If you don't like it don't watch it. If you don't want your kids to watch put blocks on sites than can be downloaded (even tho there is ALWAYS a way around any block).
Fox news is completely wrong, indian specially the american spend thousand of dollar online on porn and majority of the porn sites are being control there. Pakistan is a small country i bet if every internet user searches for porn online then its will be far behind to compare it with usa or india.
What is degrading? watching a porn, killing innocents in suicide attack in name of religion or protesting against Mumtaz Qadri's imprisonment in streets. Take your pick.
@Asim Malik: Because they're the promoters of such dirt.
Porn is banned in Saudia & even if somebody gets to some such site, the Shariah Police reaches out physically & takes such people to the task,
We can also do it!
@Asim Malik: its a free society, it is upto a person to show individual responsibility, how many things can you ban? what if someone is a great artist and starts drawing naked women? You cant ban things to improve people.
People have to make their own judgements, in America there is freedom to go to a mosque or go to a bar, person has to make their own choice.
When you ban or block something, it just becomes more popular.
Human nature.
the way they hack the site it was a slap . . .
Hmmm... so once all the porn is banned, the only people who will be able to get around PTA's firewall will be hackers. #Irony Hackers of Pakistan, unite to defend your right to smutty web content!
Why American not take action against the porn material.
Assalam-o-Allaikum Warahmatullah.Yes pornographic websites must be banned in Pakistan in any forms and manifestations but you must have options that if Islamic websites are banned then what will you do?Do you have your own satellite system or any substitute by which you could launch your Islamic websites without fear of banning by Western countries?Because pornography is called in Western countries "freedom of expression" and most of the Pakistani films are contained on lewdness and nakedness but partially and most of the heroines are worn short dresses.What is the remedy of this substandard Pakistani filmi culture?Think about it when you are thinking and talking about to ban the pornographic websites.
Porn should be ban from Pakistan but the way he choose to warn that is wrong,,,
In Pakistan there should be some dance club and dance bar like Turkey and you will see people will stop watching porn.
We all posses Autonomy as to what we wish to do,see,listen and speak.Thus all I would say, banning alcohol didn't stop its consumption in Pakistan hence ban on Porn would just invent new ways of accessing it. Self Restraint is the only Sword.
I thought teens wouldn't mind pron.@Ali Z.:
How many times the Hacker himself has visited the porn website to count porn websites are there on the web?
Is he talking about the porn or the prawn websites?
You guys think this will stop at just porn? The next target of the ghairat brigade will be movies, then music, art (this is what the taliban and religious parties ultimately want). Of course we also cannot allow books on biology. That is porn too. And while we are at it, stop teaching gynecology as it interferes in Allah's will. Why even allow books? They sometimes contain dangerous ideas, and god forbid, we do not wan't someone to learn anything. From now on, only religious studies will be allowed. Education is a conspiracy by teh jews to take us away from religion. And furthermore, I will not have my kids vaccinated, as it also is an interference in gods will. I would have banned dirty thoughts too, but alas I lack the capability to outlaw thought crime, but my morality police will be on the streets 24/7.
Oh noes! somebody think of the innocent children! Shelter them from the world! We do not want to educate our kids! /sarcasm
I am vehemently against internet censorship. If concerned parents want to ban it then there are plenty of software available which can filter content on the computer. The thing about country level censorship is that you can forget about criticizing the politicians, military and other powers that be as censorship provides an easy tool to silence opposition. Think about what the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders did first when protests started: they restricted access to the internet. Or how in China you cannot search anything about the Tianamen Square massacre, and your mails and web surfing habits are strictly monitored, and your opinions censored, sometimes worse. Think about it. Online censorship is and will be a hallmark of despotic regimes.
If the hacker cares about Pakistan he should ban the terr__r organization websites before anything else...since that is the disease that seems to be killing the nation :P
ya he is right ban on all Porn sites in Pakistan plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
FOR all those who oppose porn.You are on the same boat as en extremist.You defend the hacker one day the same guy will hack the website of universities in Pakistan and will demand that only holy literature should be taught there as well.Make sure you don't forget to shout slogans in his favour at that moment.
@bilal
Because Pakistanis got at least one thing right - Porn's great. Dont like it, dont go there.
Hahahahaha powerful balls!!!! That was gold!!
Noooooooooo,
I would die if this happens.
i pity the sexually frustrated confused teens of this country
I can bet the hacker is a regular visitor of porn sites. Why didn't he hack the most visited porn sites and leave a message there that if they run their websites again for Pakistan they will again be hacked! This is nothing but a crap!! As far as fox news report was concerned, Pakistan only has 8 million active internet users, and even if they watch porn 24/7, which they don't, they can't put any sizable traffics on web servers to be noticable!
It is easy to ban the major porn sites. It is virtually impossible to ban ALL porn sites. New porn sites are being created as I write this message. In the Middle east, the major porn sites are blocked but people living in ME know how to circumvent this block.
One easy way is via the email. The email coming in your email account is not labeled as porn and therefore is not blocked. There are many many ways to go around this block.
if porn is banned in india why not pakistan !!!
Thumbs up for the you! I hope PTA comes to senses and took steps to ban websites with pornographic material.
Whether its hacked or not, It need to be appreciated. There are more amateur who fall victims to these kind of site or at least we need to go against those evils which are deemed evils in most of our super model America!.And for your information i can assure/guarantee that America wont mind us banning these sites or wont strafe us from drones...so do it PTA
hmmm good to know but pakistanis doesnt have such abilty to block this sites.pakiostan need a software for that which is cost for billions.its impossible sir if u dont mind thank u
Hackers gone Taliban
What so ever it is PTA you should ban the bad stuff.
No country, not even China, has succeeded in blocking porn sites completely.
Dude....you are too good with what you are doing If you can't find the right way ...no probs, the way you are doing comes out to be the best in nuts
Thumbs up! Yes, you are the man. :)
Lolz this is NOT hacking, the group has simply confused the regional DNS provider into redirecting all traffic meant for PTA to a website that was set up specifically for this purpose, as soon as the DNS refreshed its cache all traffic to PTA would have been re-routed to the original website.... IN Layman terms what i just said means that the site wasn't really hacked but everyone was lead to believe it was..... real amateur stuff. probably some teen with too much time on his hands.
What a noble hacker.
I doubt fox news' report on the basis of simple logic. What is the fraction of people in Pakistan who have access to internet? Very little compared to all other countries. So how can Pakistan be the ranked number one. But I think porn sites should be banned anyway.
PTA: Porn isn't facebook or wikipedia that we'd ban it!
porn is banned in many muslim countries: it should be banned in pakistan too. excellent suggestion, but wrong method.