Sunday, 2 December 2007

Freenode forced to block tor-clients temporarily

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As stated in the staff blog freenode was forced to block tor-clients because a company named "B & C Advanced Solutions" was violating their policies by creating and publishing chat-logs covertly by bot connecting through the tor-network.
Freenode states that they where unable to identify the boty any other way.

Access via gpg-tor is supposed to be unaffected.

other blog-posts:
irseek: open letter to IRC-operators

techcrunch: Will IRSeeK Have A Chilling Effect on IRC Chat?

IrSeek-page on vorratsdatenspeicherung.de (in english) (provided by a german informant)

geekosphere.org (provided by a german informant)

laxu (provided by a german informant)

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