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We are honored to be shortlisted for the IJ4EU Impact Awards 2026 | @ecpmf.bsky.social, for The Great Firewall Export: China's Censorship Technology Goes Global. A cross-border investigation by eight organizations. What we found, in a thread. 🧵 #IJ4EUImpactAward

InterSecLab

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China's censorship model is now a product. Geedge Networks, founded by Fang Binxing, known as the father of China's Great Firewall, is selling it ready-made to governments abroad.

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InterSecLab

@interseclab.bsky.social

6 Aug

The system watches a whole country's internet: deep packet inspection, VPN blocking, real-time user tracking and mobile interception. All maintained and run from China.

InterSecLab

@interseclab.bsky.social

6 Aug

Already running in Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Myanmar. Internal job postings point to Malaysia, Bahrain, Algeria and India next. Where these systems run, a trusted VPN no longer guarantees safety.

InterSecLab

@interseclab.bsky.social

6 Aug

This took a coalition. InterSecLab built the secure research infrastructure that turned a 600GB leak into a searchable dataset for every partner, then ran the forensic analysis of how the system works.

InterSecLab

@interseclab.bsky.social

6 Aug

Thank you to IJ4EU and our partners: Amnesty International, Justice for Myanmar, Paper Trail Media, The Globe and Mail, the Tor Project, Der Standard and Follow the Money. @amnesty.org @justiceformyanmar.org @papertrailmedia.de @ftm.eu @theglobeandmail.com @torproject.org @derstandard.at

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