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.
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