Police forced the Chinese developer to remove the code from GitHub
The developer from China under the name @clowwindy is the author of such projects as Shadowsocks and ShadowVPN , which allow to bypass the blocking of sites on the Internet; and, in particular, the Great Chinese Firewall. Today he wrote in a comment on Github:
Recently, he worked on the Shadowsocks mobile app for iOS and wanted to use new low-level API (Network extension points), which appeared in iOS 9.
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In China, where Internet censorship is at the state level, conventional solutions for tunneling network traffic, such as OpenVPN or ssh -D, have long ceased to work. The great Chinese firewall has learned to recognize even encrypted VPN traffic on various indirect grounds. Therefore, Chinese hackers began to develop solutions that not only encrypt, but in all ways mask it for another 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 distant projects have been preserved on Github, and new ones have already begun to appear.
The day before yesterday, the police came to me and asked me to stop working on it. Today they demanded to remove all the code from GitHub. I have nothing left but to obey.
I hope that someday I will live in a country where I will have the freedom without fear of writing any code that I like.
I'm sure you guys will do something cool with these Network Extensions.
Until!
Recently, he worked on the Shadowsocks mobile app for iOS and wanted to use new low-level API (Network extension points), which appeared in iOS 9.
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In China, where Internet censorship is at the state level, conventional solutions for tunneling network traffic, such as OpenVPN or ssh -D, have long ceased to work. The great Chinese firewall has learned to recognize even encrypted VPN traffic on various indirect grounds. Therefore, Chinese hackers began to develop solutions that not only encrypt, but in all ways mask it for another 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 distant projects have been preserved on Github, and new ones have already begun to appear.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/265255/
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