Dnia wtorek, 30 grudnia 2014 19:21:08 Anton Nesterov pisze: > So firechat.s3.amazonaws.com with IPs 54.231.13.81, 54.231.13.89, > 54.231.2.105, 54.231.32.137, 54.231.8.89, 54.231.9.17, 54.231.96.161 was > blocked in Russia by order 27-27-2014/Ид4349-14 of General Prosecutor. > > That instance was used by Firechat to over-the-internet chats. > > Firechat became very popular in Russia in last days (it's got to the top > of Apple's App Store) because of it's mesh-chat function and because of > planned rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. Rally was planned on 15 > Jan, but as court yesterday decide to move the date of sentence to 30 > Dec, it happened today. Alexei Navalny got 3.5 years of suspended > sentence, and his brother, Oleg, was jailed for 3.5 years. > > This is the first time when some service got blocked that way, before > that there was only websites. It's not a big deal because of mesh chat. > Both firech.at & opengarden.com/firechat wasn't blocked and still works, > downloads from App Store & Google Play are fine too. > > Due to how ISPs block things (IP blocking mainly), Russian users also > got a problems with many services which use S3.
Wait, I don't get it. Is it mesh or not? If it is, how can they block it by blocking a few IPs? -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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