All the Technology In the World Can’t Defeat Human Stupidity

Wow.  The average IT guy in the private sector would be fired for something like this. 

The Internet outage that shut state Web sites for 90 minutes today was brought on by the state itself.

State computer workers intended to to block some “questionable” communications and inadvertently halted almost all communication, according to Oskar Anderson, the state’s chief information officer.

The action shut down most state Web sites and cut off e-mail for up to 35,000 state workers, Anderson said in a brief statement.

His statement did not describe what material the state was trying to block.

The affected Web sites were not available from about 12:30 to 2 p.m. They included the home pages for state agencies and the Legislature and the Web site that allows people to check court records online.