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BlockCheck

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This package was rejected on 30 Oct 2019. The reviewer chocolatey-ops has listed the following reason(s):

galeksandrp (maintainer) on 18 Sep 2019 15:40:37 +00:00:

User 'galeksandrp' (maintainer) submitted package.

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 18 Sep 2019 16:14:40 +00:00:

blockcheck has passed automated validation. It may have or may still fail other checks like testing (verification).
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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 18 Sep 2019 17:39:39 +00:00:

blockcheck has passed automated testing.
This is not the only check that is performed so check the package page to ensure a 'Ready' status.
Please visit https://gist.github.com/1af8a62fd4348a0239a56dbbbd82e1a3 for details.
This is an FYI only. There is no action you need to take.

gep13 (reviewer) on 25 Sep 2019 10:28:38 +00:00:

There are a high number of virus detections on this package version, and also on the previous one. Are these known to be false positives? Is there any discussion about this anywhere can be can direct users to?

chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 15 Oct 2019 10:31:31 +00:00:

We've found blockcheck v0.0.9.8 in a submitted status and waiting for your next actions. It has had no updates for 20 or more days since a reviewer has asked for corrections. Please note that if there is no response or fix of the package within 15 days of this message, this package version will automatically be closed (rejected) due to being stale.

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chocolatey-ops (reviewer) on 30 Oct 2019 10:36:06 +00:00:

Unfortunately there has not been progress to move blockcheck v0.0.9.8 towards an approved status within 15 days after the last review message, so we need to close (reject) the package version at this time. If you want to pick this version up and move it towards approval in the future, use the contact site admins link on the package page and we can move it back into a submitted status so you can submit updates.

Status Change - Changed status of package from 'submitted' to 'rejected'.

Description

BlockCheck is a tool for detecting website access restrictions methods of russian ISPs for websites which present in EAIS

You may not know that russian government deployed widespread internet censorship in that country. Official reestry of sites that forbidden to access (EAIS) counts ~98 000 webpages by January 2018. At least ~6 500 of them are politcal, says twitter.com/@RuBlackListNET, local human rights activists organisation.

Due to active adoption of HTTPS ISPs can't guess which webpages are watched. They are forced to block entire HTTPS-powered website to comply the law. Since exact method of restricting access is not set by the law, most of ISPs not use DPI.

Deploying DPI in 2018 costs large amount of money as well as some reputation loss, not saying about any privacy problems which may occur due to nature of DPI. Most of russian ISPs block all websites on a single IP. Human rights activists counted that by January 2018 ~4 334 000 of websites blocked illegitimately due to most websites are hosted on servers which IPs is shared between multiple websites.


tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$packageArgs = @{
  packageName            = "$env:chocolateyPackageName"
  FileFullPath                = "$(Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)\blockcheck.exe"
  url                    = 'https://github.com/ValdikSS/blockcheck/releases/download/0.0.9.8/blockcheck-0.0.9.8-windows.exe'
  checksum               = 'a4bb858a29d186bd1adff8984989b466c2ad18b1134e57bf82aeba2d7631fb13'
  checksumType           = 'sha256'
}
Get-ChocolateyWebFile @packageArgs

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BlockCheck 0.0.9.6 460 Sunday, January 7, 2018 Approved

This package has no dependencies.

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