Update: It seems that TRAI's website has been hit by a denial of service attack (DoS) and is currently down. A twitter handle by hacker collective Anonymous seems to have taken credit for the same. This is going to get messy. "Host is down" all over my terminal. Thank you! Boom Boom #TRAI http://t.co/5bNzEGt4oU Fuck you TRAI! — AnonOpsIndia (@opindia_revenge) April 27, 2015 Earlier: Fire up your spam filters NOW! Are you ready for this? Sit down. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in a stupendous move of babu-giri, has released the email ids of EVERYONE who replied to its consultation paper on net neutrality. Our response to this is a facepalm: No wait, that doesn't cut it. Jesus thought it was stupid move. In case we weren't clear, We get that government bodies strive to be transparent (hehe) and the effort is appreciated, but it makes no sense to make a million email ids public, which are now susceptible to spammers and scammers. TRAI started its consultation on net neutrality and licensing of services like WhatsApp on 27th March. While initially there were not many responses after web users realised that TRAI may allow telecom companies to breach net neutrality, the responses poured in by thousands. Savetheinternet.in, a website which was created to spread awareness of the issue, had simplified the response system for TRAI and allowed users to send an email reply via a two-click process. TRAI in its consultation paper had asked replies for 20 questions on…
