On 30/08/2019 3:29 pm, Scott Howard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:30 AM Bernard Robertson-Dunn > <b...@iimetro.com.au <mailto:b...@iimetro.com.au>> wrote: > > AFAIK (and I can't check it) is that 8Chan.com was only accessible via > Tor. I believe it had a .oinion url. > > > This is not correct. > Scott,
Thanks for the correction Bernard > They were front-ended by Cloudflare (who do not offer any Tor > services) until recently, when Cloudflare kicked them off. > > https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/ > > > ISPs are using DNS poisoning to implement the government's attempt to > discourage access to torrent indexing sites like the Pirate Bay. Once > you have a magnet link, a torrent downloader works fine without a > non-Australian DNS server or a VPN. > > > Unless the government decides that the trackers listed in the Magnet > link are also "dangerous" > > Scott -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: b...@iimetro.com.au _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
