Massive leak shows how the Chinese company exports great firewall into the world

Dropping more than 100,000 documents shows that a little known Chinese company quietly sell censor systems seemingly modeled at Great Firewall governments around the world.

Geedage Networks, company founded in 2018. year, in Chinese censoring, as well as comprehensive visibility and minimizing safety risks, and the researchers have been discovered that the sophisticated system that allows users to accompany online Information, block certain websites and VPN tools and spies on specific individuals.

Researchers Who Reviewed The Leaked Material Found That The Company Is Able To Package Advanced Surveillance Capabilities Into What Amounts To A Commercialized Version Of The Great Firewall Wholesale Solution With Both Hardware That Can Be Installed In Any Telecom Data Center and Software Operated by Local Government Officers. The documents also discuss the desired functions that the company is working on it, such as Ciberattack-for-anher and the geofencing of certain users.

According to the prostruen documents, Geedage has already entered work in Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Myanmar, as well as the second unidentified country. Publication of public work shows that Geedage also seeks engineers who can travel to other countries on engineering work, including several countries that are not appointed in leaky documents, is wired.

Files, including jira and mouth entries, source code and correspondence with Chinese academic institutions, mainly include internal technical documentation, operational logs and communications to solve problems and add functionality. Enabled anonymous leaks, files studied the consortium of human rights and media organizations, including amnesty international, interseclab, justice for myanmar, paper trails, globes and mail, tor standard and follow money.

“This is not a legal interception that every country makes, including Western democracies,” says Marla River, technical researcher in Intersezza, a global basic institution for digital forensics. In addition to mass censorship, the system allows governments to target certain individuals based on the activities of their website, as a certain domain visited.

The monitoring system that Geedage sells “gives so much power to the government that really no one should have,” Rivera says. “This is very scary.”

Digital authoritarianism as a service

At the heart of Geedage’s, the Gatey tools called Tiangou Secure Gateway (TSG), is designed to sit within data data and can be reduced to process the entire country’s online traffic, documents are discovered. According to researchers, each online traffic package passes through it, where it can be scanned, filtered or stop directly. In addition to monitoring the entire traffic, documents show that the system also allows for additional rules for certain users who consider suspicious and collecting their network activities.

For unintended Internet traffic, the system is able to intercept sensitive information such as web pages, passwords, and email attachments, according to data leak. If the content is correctly encrypted by the transport layer safety protocol, the system uses a deeply inspection of metadata extracting machines from encrypted traffic and predicts whether it will pass through the censorship form in the form of censorship. If it cannot distinguish the contents of encrypted traffic, the system can also be decided to indicate as suspicious and block it over a period of time.