Trouble at PeerGuardian

[method77]

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 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 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.sourceforge.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 update servers are no longer under our control.

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

[The Hunter]

If you dont mind, Im going to copy/paste a post by Gambit20011 from zeropaid. He also posted this at other sites. Any problem with this just delete it.

The RealGambit20011 to confirm Methlabs.org was comandeered

I am posting this message to officially resign from any affiliation of Methlabs.org. It is true the forums were stolen from D3f, the rightful owner, and so with that said I am leaving to side with D3f. Any further use of the name Peerguardian2 under this site is fraud as the license belongs to Cory Nelson along with the name and original version created by Method. I am sorry to bear the facts negotiations are no longer possible after Cerberius has commandeered the domain METHLABS.ORG from D3f.

I can be found at irc://irc.freenode.net/methlabs

& http://peerguardian.sf.net/ along with the true founders and supporters of the Peerguardian project.

I am truly saddened that negotiations between D3f and Cerberius are no longer possible, as Cerberius has excommunicated him.

PS- My name as well as Fox's were added to that official release of Methlabs.org without our consent. As obvious by the typo, I did not add my name to that site nor do i condone what Cereberius has done.

[Gambit20011]

Thanks Hunter. I'm trying to spread the factual news on all filesharing sites. If you know of any others i'd gladly post myself to rectify the rumors.

Sincerely,

Gambit20011

[The Hunter]

Not offhand bud, but Im sure some of these fine folks will be glad to help you out.

[The Hunter]

Did you get Unite the cows yet?

[method77]

If you need anything dude, we are here to help

[method77]

Goodbye Methlabs, hello Phoenix Labs.

Everything seems ok now :)

Forum discussion here

[Gambit20011]

To reinforce what was said on slyck

Slyck

Please spread the good news from this easy to remember url:http://qurl.net/ld

Thanks for the support guys.