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Great Firewall Leak Publishes 500–600GB Trove Tied to Geedge and MESA

Researchers are beginning a months-long review of the archive attributed to core Great Firewall contractors.

Overview

  • The dump, claimed by Enlace Hacktivista, is publicly available via BitTorrent and direct HTTPS links, including a 500GB RPM packaging server archive named mirror/repo.tar.
  • Leaked materials span packaging repositories, operational runbooks, Jira and project records, internal reports, and source code, revealing a maintained, large-scale software platform for traffic filtering.
  • Documents indicate exports of deep-packet inspection and censorship systems to Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan, with Myanmar showing a rollout across 26 data centers and dashboards tracking 81 million simultaneous TCP connections.
  • GFW Report, Net4People, and independent analysts have started validation and caution that thorough analysis will take time and that the archives may contain malware or tracking elements.
  • The files are linked to Geedge Networks and the MESA lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Geedge’s chief scientist identified as Fang Binxing.