Dnia sobota, 10 stycznia 2015 12:44:13 Anton Nesterov pisze: > rysiek: > > 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? > > It's mesh, and mesh chats works without internet, but Firechat also > allows over-the-internet chats, which was blocked. By the way, it's > already unblocked.
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the info. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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