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That said, the Notepad++ forum has been the target of a low level DoS attack for the past month...
Now the Notepad++ website seems to be down. https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/notepad-plus-plus.org.html
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
Just received a response from GitHub support (I removed their name):
> #### (GitHub Developer Support)
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> Oct 30, 10:38 AM UTC
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> Hello,
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> Thanks for taking the time to let us know. Our team is currently
> investigating the account in question.
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> Please let us know if we can help in any other way!
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> Thanks,
> ####
I take this opportunity to remind us that Notepad++ used to have a backdoor.
Please don't post such claims without a source to back them up. It's trolling. Notepad++ (and many other Windows executables) was found vulnerable to loading a hacked DLL dependency on a compromised Windows system. Notepad++ itself contained no backdoor as far as I can tell. This issue is explained here, as well as the actions taken to prevent it from happening again: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/134…
That is stretching the definition.
A privileged local attacker could (and can) modify Notepad++ and any other software, that is not a vulnerability or issue of any kind.
Will probably be downvoted to oblivion: This incident is a perfect example showing why embracing China and hoping they would be more open to modern values like freedom of speech, democracy, etc., is a total illusion. Too many Chinese people are brainwashed to the core that even if the great firewall is switched off today, nothing will change. The currently brainwashed people simply despise anything against Chinese of…
I'd say most Chinese cast their lot a good while ago and they decided to trade some personal freedom for economic prosperity, basically giving the CCP carte blanche to do anything (in)humanly possible to preserve the status quo. Reversing that trend is not impossible but it's extremely difficult by now: there's simply not enough dissent and anything that does pop up gets quickly dealt with. It's why Hong Kong is so important.
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
The accounts used in those scripted attacks are obviously throw-aways, removing them won't change a thing.
GitHub should take a stand and remove the accounts of everyone involved. No matter if they're spreading Chinese Nationalism and attacking people over it or those who think it's an excuse to use racist swear words against Asians. This should be a platform for collaboration, behavior like in a YouTube comment section shouldn't be tolerated
I am finding it fascinating looking at the abusive accounts and their repositories and history of issues and pull requests over various other repositories. I wonder if some kind of pattern could be apparent? (Currently the few accounts I have visited are front end JS developers) Could some of them be active in your own communities?
So they should be ostracised for not thinking like the West wants them to think? My issue with this is that some people think that all online supporters of the Chinese government are paid shills or just bots. It might surprise you to know that there are normal Chinese people, just like you and I, that simply like things are going in China. I see no reason to disrespect or ostracise them for their politics.