Porn site shame for Home Office

 

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 7 Apr 2009 at 09:41

The Home Office has been forced to remove a link from its website that led to a porn site.

The link was found on the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism's page, and was intended to offer further information for companies looking to fight Government demands for confidential communications information.

It didn't. Instead of linking to the Technical Advisory Board as promised, the link took unsuspecting users to a Japanese pornography site, which undoubtedly offered a great deal of technical details, just not of the sort the Home Office was hoping.

The offending link was spotted by the BBC which contacted the Home Office to have it fixed.

A spokesperson for the Home Office stressed its website had not been hacked but rather the site once owned by the Technical Advisory Board had been taken over by another company legitimately and put to an entirely new purpose.

The Home Office says it will investigate how the link passed unnoticed on its site.