{"id":56240,"date":"2012-10-10T13:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=56240"},"modified":"2012-10-10T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:15:38","slug":"groundviews-is-down-but-not-an-attack-by-the-government-says-groundviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/groundviews-is-down-but-not-an-attack-by-the-government-says-groundviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundviews Is down, But Not An Attack By The Government Says Groundviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Both\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundviews.org\/\">Groundviews<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and its equivalent in Sinhala,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikalpa.org\/\">Vikalpa<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/span>, are inaccessible at the moment due to technical issues. This is\u00a0NOT\u00a0a block on the sites. This is\u00a0NOT\u00a0an attack orchestrated by the Government. There is\u00a0NO\u00a0indication whatsoever that this is anything other than an unfortunate hosting issue which came to a head a few days ago.&#8221; says\u00a0Groundviews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/groundviews-is-down-but-not-an-attack-by-the-government-says-groundviews\/groundviews-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56241\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56241\" title=\"Groundviews\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Groundviews.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>&#8220;We are working as hard as we can to resolve the issue, but reinstating the site will take a couple of days at the earliest. As we intimated readers\u00a0 a few days ago, fixing this issue requires the cooperation of multiple parties and some rather technical discussions. Given the vital nature of the two sites and to avoid any downtime in the future, we will take our time to establish a robust and resilient platform, rather than hurry to put up the sites on web platforms and services that can result in further unexpected downtime.\u00a0Please note that updates via Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/groundviews\" target=\"_blank\">www.twitter.com\/groundviews<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groundviews\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/groundviews<\/a>) will continue uninterrupted. We are also on Google+. \u00a0We appreciate your patience as we sort out things out and also the dozens of email sent with offers of help and assistance.&#8221;\u00a0Groundviews further said in its statement today.<\/p>\n<p>Issuing a statement yesterdayGroundviews said; &#8221;\u00a0As a number of readers have alerted us, we too are aware that the<em>Groundviews<\/em>\u00a0website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundviews.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.groundviews.org<\/a>) is throwing up warnings on Google on account of a malicious code inject at the backend. This is NOT a site block by ISPs, and there is NO indication that this has anything at all to do with the Sri Lankan Government. Malicious code injects such as this are not uncommon on the web.\u00a0We are however in the unfortunate position of not having a dedicated technical team to assist with problems of this nature. From its inception to date, the site is maintained by InfoShare (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoshare.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.infoshare.lk<\/a>). We have been made to understand that\u00a0<em>Groundviews<\/em>\u00a0uptime is not a priority for them. We have alerted InfoShare about the issue and encourage you to do the same in order to elicit a faster response. Please email Anuruddha Edirisinghe (<a href=\"mailto:rudy@info-share.org\" target=\"_blank\">rudy@info-share.org<\/a>) and Vajra Chandrasekara (<a href=\"mailto:vajra@info-share.org\" target=\"_blank\">vajra@info-share.org<\/a>).\u00a0Until InfoShare addresses this issue, there is nothing we can do ourselves to get the site back online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":56241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[5415,5414],"class_list":["post-56240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories","tag-groundviews-and-vikalpa-cant-access","tag-groundviews-down"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Groundviews Is down, But Not An Attack By The Government Says Groundviews - 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