[bitinn]

And to add more context: Shadowsocks isn't just a tool nowadays, it's a group of applications that target both developers and common folks.

People have built successful VPN services using Shadowsocks, and they are available on many platforms, like routers and embedded systems.

And the iOS version is more or less the author's recent efforts to build a VPN client that can run on non-jailbroken iPhone, much like Cisco AnyConnect.

I think shadowsocks' popularity as a whole concerns the chinese government, so they do their usual rooting out the leader thing: now that shadowsocks org is headless in the literal sense (no owner, no main repo), they hope its development will die out.

[Coding_Cat]

What is to stop any non-chinese person from rehosting the old code? I mean, they obviously wouldn't like it and if I was said person I'd never visit China's sphere of influence again...

[DanBC]

I guess nothing.

There are plenty of people on HN who are i) wealthy ii) interested in beating censorship.

It'd be nice to see some effort going into creating software to beat censorship; having excellent translations of the documentation into a variety of languages; etc.

[phlyingpenguin]

There 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

[njloof]

Is this the same? http://liguangming.com/shadowrocket