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offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2005-09-28 22:29 [#01736467]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator



apparently methlabs, the guys who make Peerguardian have
been having a lot of trouble:

The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and
development team have been forced out of their web site
following a series of threats and incidents. The member of
the group that had been trusted to handle the finances and
servers slowly managed to take over each individual part of
the web site's assets, eventually claiming control over the
entire group and locking out the majority of staff.

The organisation's founders, Tim Leonard and Ken McKelland,
as well as the majority of the organisation's staff and
developers (including the main developer of the
PeerGuardian2 application, Cory Nelson and the staff members
responsible for auditing the PeerGuardian Blocklists) have
all been forcibly removed from the servers that were funded
from donations given to the organisation by happy users, and
from text advertising placed on the web sites forum and
project pages.

The money, which was to have been used to help fund the
development and hosting costs of the group is now
unavailable, stolen by the one who was trusted to keep it.

Development of PeerGuardian will resume, and the web site
will temporarily move to http://peerguardian.sf.net/ until a
new domain is registered and a new server found. The
intention of the group is to register a non-profit
organisation to handle the development of Methlabs
applications and to promote open source projects that aid
both security, privacy and peer-to-peer technologies, in
order to prevent a repeat of this incident.

Update: We have a new home at http://phoenixlabs.org.


and I was wondering why my Peerguardian couldn't update its
blocklists..


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-09-28 22:36 [#01736470]
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wow, pretty wild story...


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-08-30 09:28 [#01962285]
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any news on this?

i just got peerguardian, and every time i try to get it to
update its lists (from peerguardian.sourceforge.net, not
blocklists.org) it crashes. are there alternative, newer
URLs that I should be using instead?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-08-30 09:52 [#01962287]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator



I'm having no problems updating PG - from
peerguardian.sourceforge.net, just like you.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-08-30 12:02 [#01962355]
Points: 12878 Status: Addict



ah, just got new lists from here,
http://lists.blocklist.org/ , and they work great. suddenly
the number of blocked IPs has gone up into the billions.
hope this doesn't hinder my browsing..

LAZY_TITLE


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-08-30 12:17 [#01962371]
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The latest version of Peer Guardian has been working
perfectly here.


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-08-30 16:44 [#01962514]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to redrum: #01962355



there's a button on the top-right - "Allow HTTP" or "Block
HTTP". handy for when browsing the internets.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-08-30 17:06 [#01962521]
Points: 12878 Status: Addict | Followup to qrter: #01962514



cheers, just noticed that after posting. is there any reason
why it should be enabled then?


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2006-08-30 17:12 [#01962525]
Points: 47414 Status: Moderator | Followup to redrum: #01962521



no idea lol!!!

I always have it on "Allow". it's probably there for a
reason, though. hmm.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-08-30 17:46 [#01962540]
Points: 12878 Status: Addict | Followup to qrter: #01962525



old tommy was no use either. all i could get out of him
was:

"and you can say what you want about anger management, but
if it's between ME and a crack squirrel, i would take that
squirrel down, i would take that squirrel down to chinatown"


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2006-08-30 17:51 [#01962545]
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I hope the people of Peerguardia are okay, and and some kind
of peace accord can be signed to end the troubles.


 


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