To open access click here to about 600 GB of data related to the operations of the Great Chinese Firewall (GFW), which is used to regulate Internet traffic in China. The leaked archive includes approximately 500 GB of rpm packets from the private repository of repro.geedge.net, various tools and devices, as well as compressed (ZSTD) archives containing code (63 GB), documentation (50 GB, over 100,000 documents), and records from the JIRA error tracking system (2.7 GB). The data can be downloaded directly or via torrents .
Analysis is underway on the leaked documentation and code . An initial report has been released with key findings, including the main countries using GFW technology, the geographical distribution of traffic blocking infrastructure in China, and details on the control of websites, VPNs, bandwidth limitation, TLS site tracking, and user activity monitoring.
The leaked data originated from Geedge Networks and Mesa Lab laboratories at the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which developed and implemented solutions based on GFW technology. Apart from China, systems utilizing GFW technology have been deployed in countries such as Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia.