An IIE/MESA-affiliated researcher's repo "current2023/evasion-test" is explicitly built around modifying Geneva, the open-source genetic-algorithm censorship-evasion strategy search tool, per its own commit message -- direct evidence that GFW-affiliated researchers are testing and adapting a specific published circumvention research tool rather than only working from first principles.

2f43d9bc1ed2711e5eac6ea07e7ffeec7fc9376e|[name redacted]|[email redacted]|2024-06-03|Update README.md, modified using Geneva

Defense implications

• Evasion strategies published from academic Geneva research should not be assumed novel against the GFW/TSG -- this repo shows at least one MESA-affiliated researcher (name redacted) directly testing modified Geneva strategies as of mid-2024.

extracted_by: claude-sonnet-5 · added 2026-08-26 · id: 2026-mgit-geneva-evasion-test