Protection For File Sharers

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