193 Developers Identified in China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Leak
The CCP’s technology used to suppress citizens was sold to the governments of Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Burma, Xinjiang, and at least one other.
FILE - Attendees walk past an electronic display showing recent cyberattacks in China at the China Internet Security Conference in Beijing, on Sept. 12, 2017. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File
Internet freedom company Dynamic Internet Technology has identified 193 developers behind the recent leak of 100,000 documents that shed light into how China is exporting mass surveillance and censorship tools to authoritarian clients.
The documents originated from Chinese company Geedge Networks and MESA laboratory, a research institute under the state-controlled Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Catherine Yang is a reporter for The Epoch Times based in New York.