Geedge Networks leak: exporting the Great Firewall
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A leak of more than 100,000 documents from the Chinese company Geedge Networks was reported in September 2025. Journalists and researchers said the company sells censorship and surveillance systems modelled on the Great Firewall to governments including Myanmar and Pakistan.
Confirmed
Wired and Amnesty International reported on the files; Amnesty described Pakistan's upgraded monitoring system from the dataset. Academic researchers in a USENIX Security 2026 paper built and ran the company's firewall software locally to check what it does.
Claimed, disputed or not established
Deployments in each country are as read from the documents and the lab analysis; the sources opened do not include confirmation from the governments concerned.
Reported impact
Rights groups and researchers described a commercial route by which censorship technology is exported.
Sources (opened in a new tab)
- Wired: massive leak shows a Chinese company exporting the Great Firewall ↗https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/
- Amnesty International: Pakistan's mass surveillance and censorship machine ↗https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/
- USENIX Security 2026: Ablove et al. (paper) ↗https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity26-ablove.pdf
- USENIX Security 2026: presentation page ↗https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity26/presentation/ablove
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