I would also like to know how they got through the Great Firewall.
I am not saying it's impossible, just genuinely curious what technique they used that allowed them to exfiltrate 10PiB of data at an average sustained transfer rate of ~5.5Tbps without getting noticed.
Tools that make it possible to hide traffic and go around blocks often slow the traffic down substantially, after all…
🧵/end
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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2026-04-09 15:08:52 CEST
in reply to nevent1q…gvhh
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