Marcus Griep wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:18 AM, James Brown <jbrownfirst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Very thanks. >> But did they say you about a character of that abuse? >> I thin that only an RSS feed of LJ friends pages is not a serious >> ground for blocking the Tor network. >> If they did such not by order of the SUP for protection of the Russian >> dictatorship I can't understand why the SUP by they 2 years ago. For >> latent shadowing against Russian oppositionists for the Federal >> security service of Russia? >> I was very sleepy when you wrote your letter (it was about 3 a.m at my >> place) and I coudn't recognize that I could try ask them a question >> concerning the next. >> By the information of Russian press (see, particularly >> http://www.newsru.com/russia/10nov2009/vkontakte.html ) the secret >> services of Russia arrested estimated murders of Markelov (many people >> in Russia think that they are not real murders because real economic >> base of Markelov's murder was deforestation of the Khimki forest against >> which Markelov fighted and any version about the revenge of >> "nationalists" have not under it real economic and money base and seems >> very absurd) through LJ activity of them. >> In accordance with this information they had access to the LJ not >> through the Tor but through the specific public wifi - so-called WIMAX, >> from account registered on assumed name. >> So, the Russian secret services had needed an information about >> ip-addresses of those users of the LJ for computing their through >> triangulation with beam gain antennas. >> So, we can suspect that those ip-addresses were given to Russian secret >> services by the SUP besides the official inquiry of Russian authorities >> to the US authorities (as I know there is not an agreement on mutual >> assistance in criminal matters between Russia and the USA). >> If it was really so, it was an obvious interference of Russian >> government in internal affairs of the USA in accordance with >> international law. >> I don't know about the US criminal law but such actions are examined as >> an espionage by the Russain Criminal Code. >> I think that the notion of an espionage is approximately equal in all >> countries. > > > There's a lot of speculation in that statement, though I know little of > internal politicking within Russia. I think that the explanation via Jacob > is a pretty sound one; LJ doesn't want its paid value-added model > circumvented by this Russian site, that then chose to use Tor to breach LJ's > Terms of Service, and so the community has to bear the brunt of it. I spoke again to Livejournal today. They've mostly lifted the block. They're working on future ways to block abusers of LJ without affecting normal, legitimate users; They're pretty awesome for restoring service for the majority of Tor users so quickly! Best, Jacob
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