Firechat's Amazon S3 instance got blocked in Russia

[rysiek]

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.

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