Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio.org, CloudFlare, and the blocking of Tor users

2016-06-23 Thread panic
Hi,

panic:
> this is not directly related to the gnuradio software but to the
> gnuradio.org homepage:
> 
> gnuradio.org uses CloudFlare (CF) for some reason, and thus, users of
> Tor have to solve (Google) captchas (possibly indefinitely) -- otherwise
> they're simply blocked from reading the page, see [0].

One week later, there still has not been any response to the issue. CF
still happily intercepts requests to gnuradio.org and blocks Tor users.

I would really like to see this issue addressed. IMHO there is no
technical justification for CF for the gnuradio.org homepage and its
usage is a violation of the GNU principles.

Cheers,
-- panic

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[Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio.org, CloudFlare, and the blocking of Tor users

2016-06-16 Thread panic
Hi,

this is not directly related to the gnuradio software but to the
gnuradio.org homepage:

gnuradio.org uses CloudFlare (CF) for some reason, and thus, users of
Tor have to solve (Google) captchas (possibly indefinitely) -- otherwise
they're simply blocked from reading the page, see [0].

Please consider (a) using another "level of security" in the CF
settings, or (b) replacing CF with an alternative that does not block
Tor users, or (c) disable CF entirely. (or (d) find another option I did
not mention)

Also note that -- according to the GNU Maintainer Guide [1] -- a GNU
package (incl. GNU Radio) "should not recommend use of any non-free
program" and it should "[not] host discussions [...] in a service that
requires nonfree software".  In this case, however, the users have to
run non-free JavaScript (CF, Google) and this might be seen as an
endorsement of (non-free) CF.

There may be technical reasons and/or historic decisions that lead to
the use CF, but please try to find a more ethically acceptable and less
invasive alternative for the (mid- to long-term) future.

Thank you for realising GNU Radio!

Cheers,
-- panic


[0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Ethical-and-Philosophical-Consideration.html#Ethical-and-Philosophical-Consideration

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