Police force Chinese developer to remove code from GitHub

    Developer from China under the name @clowwindy - author of such projects as Shadowsocks and ShadowVPN , allowing to bypass the blocking of websites on the Internet; and, in particular, the Great Chinese firewall. Today, he wrote in a comment on Github:
    The day before yesterday the police came to me and asked to stop working on this. Today they demanded to remove all code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey.

    I hope that someday I will live in a country where I will have the freedom to write any code that I like without fear.

    I'm sure you guys will do something cool with these Network Extensions.

    Till!

    Recently, he worked on the Shadowsocks mobile application for iOS and wanted to use the new low-level APIs (Network extension points) that appeared in iOS 9.

    In China, where Internet censorship is set to the state level, the usual solutions for tunneling network traffic, such as OpenVPN or ssh -D, have not been working for a long time. The great Chinese firewall has learned to recognize even encrypted VPN traffic by various indirect signs. Therefore, Chinese hackers began to develop solutions that not only encrypt, but by all means mask it under a different type of traffic (HTTPS, for example), which is not subject to blocking.

    In 2013, the entire Github was blocked in China for several days.

    Fortunately, thanks to the previously made forks (and the spirit of the open-source community), clones of remote projects survived on Github, and new ones began to appear .

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