Firechat's Amazon S3 instance got blocked in Russia

[Anton Nesterov]

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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