HOhohohmm·Sep 1, 2015Submission
Shadowsocks source code removed after author questioned by Chinese police
2 points · Open discussionshadowsocks
shadowsocks-iOS
Objective-C2015–2015
shadowsocks / shadowsocks-iOS
shadowsocks-iOS
Removed according to regulations.
7Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
8.1KGitHub stars
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Observed mentions: 2015-08-22 04:12:56 UTC to 2015-09-01 05:56:19 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 22 | 2015-08-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Aug 23 | 2015-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 24 | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 25 | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 26 | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 27 | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 28 | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 29 | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 30 | 2015-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 31 | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 1 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesThere are tons of forks of it on GitHub, naturally. I had to go to one to figure out what the project was.
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/network
In “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”Can't? https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/network seems to work just fine. It even attributes the code to the original author, despite them not having a copy of it.
In “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”Did you miss the original link?
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-iOS/issues/124#is...
In “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”I 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.
In “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”This 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.
In “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”
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