Over 500 GB of internal documents from Geedge Networks and China’s MESA Lab leaked, exposing how the Great Firewall architects export surveillance tech to Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and beyond under Belt and Road initiatives. The massive dump includes 100,000+ files from Jira, Confluence, and GitLab: essentially the blueprints for building your own authoritarian internet. A technical analysis reveals the operational infrastructure behind China’s internet control systems, though the source code portion remains largely unexamined by researchers. Amnesty International traced Pakistan’s national firewall, WMS 2.0, to Geedge technology that replaced the original Sandvine-based system in 2023, with hardware and software from Niagara Networks and Thales in the mix.
500 GB leak shows how Geedge exports the Great Firewall
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