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Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Please, for once, read past the headline before you post your preconfigured messages that make no sense in this context...

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is not like lawful interception that every country does, including Western democracies,” says Marla Rivera, a technical researcher at InterSecLab, a global digital forensics research institution. In addition to mass censorship, the system allows governments to target specific individuals based on their website activities, like having visited a certain domain.

The surveillance system that Geedge is selling “gives so much power to the government that really nobody should have,” Rivera says. “This is very frightening.”

Digital Authoritarianism as a Service

I'm sorry, did you read the article? That's exactly what it is saying silly.

[–] ilir@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

InterSecLab

Has anyone found out who is financing this dubious InterSecLab? Or who the owner is?

I found the following: Home - InterSecLab

And so far, I haven't found anything on the site except propaganda and marketing.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://www.opentech.fund/projects-we-support/supported-projects/interseclab/

I found the above, here is the referenced report: https://interseclab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Internet-Coup_September2025.pdf

The acknowledgements:

Acknowlegements

This research by InterSecLab is part of the Great Firewall Export investigation, a joint collaboration with the partners Amnesty International, Justice For Myanmar, Paper Trail Media, The Globe and Mail, the Tor Project, the Austrian newspaper DER STANDARD and Follow The Money. We thank Paper Trail Media for their coordination role in the consortium. We also express our immense gratitude to Amnesty International, Justice For Myanmar, Paper Trail Media, The Globe and Mail and the Tor Project for the amazing collaborative approach, enriching discussions, sharing of key findings, open-source material and interviews, support with translation of Chinese language and all matters that made this report possible. We also appreciate the contributions from the Tor Project team, who reviewed the Tor section, and the Psiphon team, who provided valuable information and reviewed the Psiphon section.

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tankies gonna wankies. Block and move on.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Imagine being a imgur castaway in 2025.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dabster291@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

The wonderful and awe-inspiring archive.is: