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Phivolcs turning into a porn site?

/ 02:43 PM January 25, 2014

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MANILA, Philippines—It monitors eruption, but does it make the country’s volcanology bureau a porn website?

On Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) posted a poll question on their website.

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“How do you find Phivolc’s website?” it asked.

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The options of the poll were “informative,” “useful,” and “easy to navigate.”

And the answer: “porno, porn, porno, izle.”

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Reached for their side, Phivolcs science research specialist Kervin Makaranas told INQUIRER.net one of their mirror sites was hacked.  This explains why not all servers were affixed with the offensive answer.

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Makaranas said Phivolc’s information technology department was fixing the bug.

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