“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
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#2“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey.
I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.
I believe you guys will make great stuff with Network Extensions.
Cheers!”
Re: “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
#3“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey. I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing. I believe you guys will make great stuff with Network Extensions. Cheers!”
Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?
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#4“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey. I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing. I believe you guys will make great stuff with Network Extensions. Cheers!”
Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?
Mexico.
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#5Main site for the software: https://shadowvpn.org
Were the repos mirrored anywhere, or would that present a risk to the original author?
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#6what was this?
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#7While I understand what the gov is trying to do, who's to say somebody else that doesn't live in China maintains the project and puts it on GitHub for all the world to see?
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#8And there are more than 500 forks. I'd say good luck deleting that :D
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#9“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey. I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing. I believe you guys will make great stuff with Network Extensions. Cheers!”
Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?
Maybe China? There's a bit of Chinese in the author's other repos: https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories
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#10This wasn't a thorough deletion. The shadowsocks-iOS project has been switched to the 'rm' branch, but the 'master' branch still contains all the source code: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/tree/master There's also a downloadable 2.6.3 release with a built .dmg and source code: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/releases
Even if it does get completely removed, a duplicate exists on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/mba811/shadowsocks-iOS (No guarantee that it has all the commits prior to deletion, or that it hasn't been modified from the original in some way.)
I can only hope the police in clowwindy's country don't know how to switch GitHub branches.