Geedge leaks: Xinjiang 912, a new firewall ?

The leaked project documents provide rare insight into the modernization and expansion of Xinjiang’s firewall project, now positioned as a model for decentralized online censorship across China.

A few months ago a post on Twitter by a Chinese user hinted at an upgrade to the local firewall in Xinjiang. At the time, the evidence was thin and mostly observational, but as we’ll see, it was very real.