NEWS-SOUTH ASIA: Pak official Web site not hacked: Web master
Pak official Web site not hacked: Web master
by Muhammad Najeeb, India Abroad News Service
Islamabad, Dec 23 - The Web master of Pakistan's official Web site
www.pak.gov.pk has ridiculed claims by some "patriotic Indian IT
professional" that the site has been hacked and that its front page has been
blocked.
"This shows how professional Indians are...they don't know the official Web
site of Pakistan," the Web master said while commenting on news reports that
the government's Web site had been hacked by pro-India hackers.
On Thursday, the front page of a Web site www.pakgov.org carried a message
saying, "This site has been hacked by a patriotic Indian IT professional
with the sole objective of trying to get the message across to Pakistani
hackers (if any) to keep their hands off Indian Web sites."
The Web master said one could judge the professional level of the Indians by
the fact that they even did not know that government Web sites are
registered as gov. and not org. He said org. was meant for organizations and
not for governments.
"They can only make a fool of themselves," he said. He said Pakistan's
official Web site was fully operative and guessed that some Indians could
have got this site www.pakgov.org registered fictitiously and then put out a
message saying that they have blocked the official site.
"We have made adequate security arrangements and no one can enter into our
domain. They even cannot crash our servers what to talk of entering into our
domain."
Another IT professional, requesting anonymity, also laughed away the Indian
claim, saying he knew the security system of Pakistan's official Web sites,
and added that they were not easy to hack.
"No doubt Indian IT professionals are large in numbers, but they cannot
reach the caliber of Pakistanis," he said.
Describing the news of hacking as the height of stupidity, he said Pakistani
sites had multiple-layered security systems and were difficult to enter
into.
