China exports Great Firewall surveillance systems
4 hours ago
- #Geedge Networks
- #Great Firewall
- #Internet Censorship
- The Great Firewall (GFW) is China's internet censorship program aimed at restricting access to international websites.
- GFW serves as a tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to control over 700 million internet users in China.
- Geedge Networks, a Chinese company, has been exporting GFW technologies to authoritarian governments globally.
- Leaked documents reveal Geedge Networks provides a mass censorship tool called Tiangou Secure Gateway (TSG).
- TSG can monitor and filter both unencrypted and HTTPS traffic, including VPN and Tor connections.
- Data collected by TSG is managed remotely from China, violating data sovereignty principles.
- Geedge Networks collaborates with Mesalab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to study censorship circumvention methods.
- CAS is under CCP oversight, aligning its work with state strategic goals.
- Geedge Networks' technologies enable authoritarian regimes to spy on citizens and restrict information access.
- The company's activities suggest CCP involvement in exporting censorship technologies.