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Author: **Gucky2** » 18.09.2005, 12:03

Die Entwickler der Software PeerGuardian wurden aus ihrem eigenen Projekt rausgeworfen. Bei Peerguardian handelt es sich um eine Art Firewall, die die IPs von Beh?rden, Unis und vielen anderen blockt und somit das Filesharing sicherer machen soll.

Aus ihrem eigenen Projekt wurden sie durch eine Intrige des Finanzverwalters "entsorgt". Dieser hatte hinter dem R?cken der Anderen alle m?glichen Bereiche der Seite an sich gezogen und unter seine Kontrolle gebracht, bis er alle problemlos aussperren konnte. Die Server und Domains, die aus Spenden an die Entwickler finanziert wurden, sind nun unter seiner Kontrolle.

Das Projekt wird dennoch fortgesetezt. Man ist tempor?r auf eine Ersatzpage umgezogen. Die Entwickler empfehlen die aktuelle PeerGuardian 2 Beta 6a zu benutzen, allerdings sehr vorsichtig bei Updates zu sein, da auch der Server f?r die Blacklist, also die Liste mit den zu sperrenden IPs nicht mehr unter ihrer Kontrolle ist. Mit der n?chsten Beta soll die Liste neu verlinkt werden.

Neue PeerGuardian Ersatzpage: h**p://peerguardian.sf.net/

Vor dem Benutzen der Pages methlabs.org und blacklist.org wird gewarnt!

Quelle:win-news.de/news

Hier die Original Mitteilung der Macher

The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website 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 website'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 websites 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 website 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.

The team wish all their users the best through this difficult time, but promise that development will continue. Please visit http://peerguardian.sf.net/ for news as we make progress. All other sites, including http://methlabs.org and http://blocklist.org, are under control of the rogue member and should not be trusted for safe updates to our applications or lists.

A new build of PeerGuardian will be released soon to reflect these changes. Until then we ask you to continue using Beta 6a but with caution as the list update servers are no longer under our control and may be unsafe.

All staff are available in irc.freenode.net, channel #methlabs if you wish to chat.

Thanks,
The Methlabs Staff (looking for a new home),

Adam Hoier, Cory Nelson, Eric Mayuk, Fox Lowe, James Shanelec, Joseph Farthing, Ken McKelland, Steffen Tuzar, Tim Leonard

aka

braindancer, D3F, fox, FuRiOuS1, JFM, KuKIE, method, phrosty, r00ted