OpEverest has hacked the Nepal Government’s official website nepalgov.gov.np
An ‘Anonymous’ group named #OpEverest has hacked the Nepal Government’s official website nepalgov.gov.np. The group says that the extreme measure was done to draw attention towards corruption, internet spying, internet filter, and mismanagement in Nepal. The DDos attack on the website confirm the impact of this letter (click on the image on the right to enlarge it). The letter mentions various other government and political party websites as their next target.
I am surprised how could they attack some website to fulfill such clueless demands. Nobody knows how to fulfil these demands. The letter says: reduce corruption – everybody is saying that and the government has also punished some corrupt people (a show-off). It can’t be done by a magic wand. Missmanagement – what is that? How does one know if they are spying internet or not? And internet filtering can be stopped. But, is this the right way to demand such things?
Let’s analyze their next target sites and impact on them:
First – none of these sites have any useful information. Nither the government nor the citizen care if the sites go offline for a couple of days or weeks.
- ucpnm.org (Maoist website – last two updates March 9 and April 26)
- nepalicongress.org (Nepali Congress website – Google has flagged it as Attack Page and they haven’t cared to correct the problem)
- cpnuml.org (CPN UML website – last two updates on Feb 17)
- mjfn.org (I couldn’t open it, even Google hasn’t indexed it – so couldn’t check the cache – I suspect it is not online at all)
As you can see, these sites are mostly blogs. They post contents and don’t update the sites for months. Nobody relies in these sites for any works. These sites are only made to show their online presence. Most of the Nepali (including myself) don’t even know they existed before today.
A tentative traffic analysis of these sites. The biggest site, Anonymous choose to attack, is ranked almost 2000 in Nepal and it is ranked 1,667,960 worldwide. A month-old blog with a couple of posts can get over that rank in Alexa within a few months. Other websites are even worse.
