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Our post reveals what this shift means: when repression becomes a service that can be bought, civil liberties now depend on what states can afford to purchase.

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What makes this leak significant is the technical detail showing how these systems track users across platforms, adapt to defeat Tor, and enable retroactive identification of activities that were legal at the time.

This connects to stories many outlets have covered: Myanmar's post-coup crackdown, new laws criminalizing VPNs, and the global surveillance market that emerged as Western export restrictions tightened.

Geedge Networks, founded by the architect of China's censorship system, is commercializing surveillance as a managed service — complete with maintenance, upgrades, and custom blocking rules.

This connects to stories many outlets have covered: Myanmar's post-coup crackdown, new laws criminalizing VPNs, and the global surveillance market that emerged as Western export restrictions tightened.

Geedge Networks, founded by the architect of China's censorship system, is commercializing surveillance as a managed service — complete with maintenance, upgrades, and custom blocking rules.

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Other provinces affected are Fujian and Jiangsu. The Geedge activity inside China shows high levels of trust that the company enjoyed by the Chinese government. The leak also indicates a close relation between Geedge and Mesalab, an academic research laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The unknown client: A24 is the codename for a client country we were not able to identify. Geedge’s naming convention suggests that the country starts with A and collaboration started in 2024. The implementation of Geedge tools at A24 has been in its early stages when the documents were leaked.

Some ISPs that collaborated with Geedge have received investment from Western institutions. Frontiir (Myanmar) has been supported by the governments of Denmark, Norway and the UK. Safaricom (Ethiopia) received investment from the World Bank Group and British International Investment, among others.

Complicity of Western companies: The Geedge suite relies on the DRM software “Sentinel HASP” to manage its subscriptions. This product is owned by the French aerospace and defense giant Thales Group. Thales confirmed the cooperation, but stated that Geedge does not rely on Sentinel to function.

The Tigray internet shutdown lasted 2 years and was one of the longest in history. It presumably enabled and concealed serious war crimes by hindering people to publish news on social media.