“Great firewall in a box”: system controls real -time connections and has been sold to countries such as Pakistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Kazakhstan.
It was on September 11 that an information escape exposed the internal functioning of the powerful Internet censorship system in China, says the episode one of the most detailed information escapes ever seen about censorship technology.
They were 500 GB of exposed data, including internal documents, source code, work records and internal communications were placed online.
It’s like a “big firewall [jogo de palavras com Great Wall, a grande Muralha chinesa] In a box ”ready to use, experts describe.
The system was installed in 26 Datacers in Myanmar and supported real -time control panels that monitored 81 million simultaneous TCP connections. According to the documents, it was the state telecommunications company of Myanmar who operated the system.
And Geedge’s DPI systems were even exported out of China, according to an International Investigation investigation that revealed the and Sales to Pakistan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan.
In several cases, the systems were even installed together with Legal Interception Platformsthat allow the real -time surveillance of communications.
These exposed tools show the way in the cyber world, China is able to exercise control – Firewall allows operators to see exactly what users are doing online.
