Whoopsie Daisy of the Day: As part of a supposed crackdown on online child porn by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Cyber Crimes Center (the so-called “Operation Save Our Children”), a domain belonging to the DNS service provider FreeDNS was mistakenly seized, along with 84,000 innocent subdomains, which included many websites of small businesses. It stands to reason that having a giant federal notice of seizure alleging your involvement in the distribution of child porn plastered on your homepage isn’t very good for business.

It took the government two days to restore the seized sites, and an additional three for the menacing banner to disappear entirely. The Department of Homeland Security, in a press release, did not acknowledge the 84,000 elephants in the room, choosing instead to discuss the 10 websites they seized that were actually promoting child porn.

[geekosystem.]