How did the Chinese government find out the identities of contributors Chen Mei (陈玫) and Cai Wei (蔡伟)? Please please please enforce strong anonymity measures for contributors.

[cirosantilli]

Petition to free them: https://github.com/cirosantilli/chenmei-caiwei-ziyou

Covered at:

• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3081569/chinese-activists-detained-after-sharing-censored-coronavirus
• https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/Xinwen/7-04252020144555.html Chinese article, gives the Chinese names, and some background on the arrested people

Fuck they were charged: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3089002/coronavirus-chinese-activists-held-posting-censored-articles

Were their names publicly used while contributing? I couldn't find them easily in the commit messages.

Please enforce contributors who live in China to use strong anonymity measures since you seem correctly to be using a shared terminusbot account for contribution.

Tor or VPN are the minimum. Encrypted hard disks are also a must. I wonder if the CCP can find identities by matching push timestamps though and correlating with network activity.

Stay safe.

[larvata]

someone gave speculation about how the Chinese gov identities the contributor.
https://github.com/2049bbs/2049bbs.github.io/blob/master/README.md

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[cirosantilli]

Thanks!

I wonder why not just use GitHub issues for communication (yes, also with Tor in case Microsoft decides to comply to Chinese IP disclosure requests but here they claim they don't: https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/guidelines-for-legal-requests-of-user-data#requests-from-foreign-law-enforcement ).

Your message footer suggests that 品葱 could also be compromised? I would love a reference to that as well is you have one.