2004-09-30

 

I shouldn't have been surprised by this, but I was. A helpful soul on a board I read mentioned that the robots.txt file for whitehouse.gov disallows searchengines to read / index anything about Iraq. A slew of directories with "iraq" in the name have been explicitly listed as non-indexable. Though a cursory sample of these directories seems to show that many (if not all) of the "iraq" directories do not exist on the server at all (such as /holiday/2003/cards/truman/iraq. that would have been a weird combination there.) Why deny them if they don't exist? In case they might exist in the future? That's just crappy administration... Ha! Crappy system administration in a crappy presidential administration!

posted by bethanye 1:02:00 PM   

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LOL. Seems to be in line with the current administration's modus operandi.

You obviously just don't understand; it's just a question of security, silly girl. It's not really important that they don't exist, but that we are all safer if they deny access to them.

uhmf, you active as if you've never heard of pre-emptive action. ;) piddly-snort.

# posted by  MollyB : 9/30/2004 1:27 PM

 

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