Its NOT the police....
ITS THE MOB...
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
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#22From Wikipedia: > The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
If you control virtually every aspect of media in a country, I don't see how Streisand effect works...
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#23I find this comment amazing:
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#is...
Even with root account, you are not in full control of your Mac - you are sandboxed by Apple.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
From the fact that there's lots of other stuff related to networking/tunneling, and the username has some "Chinese characteristics" to it, I also think it's China.
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#25what was this?
Shadowsocks is the most popular solution for circumventing China's GFW these days. It has the advantage of obfuscating the traffic, thus making it hard for GFW to detect it, unlike say SSH or OpenVPN traffic, which are easy to detect.
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#26This 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:…
Years ago, news said China "banned" bitcoin, years later miners in China live just fine. I guess this is not going to be so different.
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#27For people who are not aware of this: Shadowsocks is a popular and very simple tool to circumvent Great Fire Wall in China. It is written to reduce characteristics in network traffic so that GFW cannot easily block it by deep traffic analysis. clowwindy is the original author.
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#28I find this comment amazing: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#is... Even with root account, you are not in full control of your Mac - you are sandboxed by Apple.
This is the result of a recent change in OS X 10.11, called System Integrity Protection.
It's a big step in the wrong direction [opinion], especially because it does nothing to verify "integrity". It prevents changes to the System directory by conventional means (and injection into system processes).
If malware were to figure out a way to disable SIP from userland, it could install itself in such a way that nothing short of disabling SIP could uninstall it.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your use of English, because it is difficult to see how this is not a facetious question. There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code, and I think only in China is there both widespread computer use and internet access, on the one hand, and state security actors (the civil police, actually) who have the soph…
I think there are more than a few countries where this sort of thing could easily happen. Tech talks get canceled at the behest of the powers that be with some regularity, I don't think requests to take down source code would be out of the question. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/2... http://www.csoonline.com/article/2947377/network-security/pr...
You think that, but your links are to two cancelled presentations at conferences, neither of which has any clear connection with the 'powers that be', unless you consider the SEI and Carnegie Mellon University to be the 'powers that be'.
Both those conferences occur in a single country, one which was not even able, under its own laws, to effectively suppress the distribution of cryptographic code when it was legally considered to be militarizable as a weapon.
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#30While 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?
Maybe they are going to block or attack GitHub again until GitHub takes down all clones of it.
The Chinese government just has to take control of the repo and make a new commit that contains the word "retard" and GitHub will make sure it never sees the light of day again for them.