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Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#23

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Gizmodo has some info. but I wanted to find a less trashy source; the register has a story [1]. In short, it's suspected that the Chinese government is behind the attack because there are some projects hosted on GitHub that it ideologically disagrees with. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...

Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? First it was redirecting Chinese internet users to random IPs, if the government didn't like their DNS queries and now they're doing ddos attack on a site that host a large percentage of open source code, used for a whole host of service and products. At some point it's going to make more economical sense to kick China of the inter…

Well, the USA engaged in a mass spying operation. Should we kick the USA off the internet?

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gizmodo has some info. but I wanted to find a less trashy source; the register has a story [1]. In short, it's suspected that the Chinese government is behind the attack because there are some projects hosted on GitHub that it ideologically disagrees with. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...

Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? First it was redirecting Chinese internet users to random IPs, if the government didn't like their DNS queries and now they're doing ddos attack on a site that host a large percentage of open source code, used for a whole host of service and products. At some point it's going to make more economical sense to kick China of the inter…

In fact, we have kick out from github pages.(Chinese users cannot open *.github.io now.)

BTW: Here is the Cloudflare way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9234367

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gizmodo has some info. but I wanted to find a less trashy source; the register has a story [1]. In short, it's suspected that the Chinese government is behind the attack because there are some projects hosted on GitHub that it ideologically disagrees with. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...

Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? First it was redirecting Chinese internet users to random IPs, if the government didn't like their DNS queries and now they're doing ddos attack on a site that host a large percentage of open source code, used for a whole host of service and products. At some point it's going to make more economical sense to kick China of the inter…

The internet is how we maintain dialogue between peoples when our Governments behave like posturing (arse|ass)+holes. The worse a Government behaves the more (not less) internets the country should receive.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#27
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As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against "the bullies".

I was anticipating the second half of your sentence being something like "they better maintain 100% uptime or I'll be pissed off". Glad it wasn't.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gizmodo has some info. but I wanted to find a less trashy source; the register has a story [1]. In short, it's suspected that the Chinese government is behind the attack because there are some projects hosted on GitHub that it ideologically disagrees with. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/27/github_under_fire_fr...

Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? First it was redirecting Chinese internet users to random IPs, if the government didn't like their DNS queries and now they're doing ddos attack on a site that host a large percentage of open source code, used for a whole host of service and products. At some point it's going to make more economical sense to kick China of the inter…

And turn China into North Korea?

Think about it: the government wants to cut us off from the rest of the world, that would make them happy, but would PISS a lot of people off. Anyways, if the westerners did it for the Chinese government, the people would be angry at them rather than the government...

If you try to complain to China Telecom about not being able to access Facebook, they already blame it Facebook since none of these sites are "officially" blocked. This would just play into that lie big time.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#30
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? First it was redirecting Chinese internet users to random IPs, if the government didn't like their DNS queries and now they're doing ddos attack on a site that host a large percentage of open source code, used for a whole host of service and products. At some point it's going to make more economical sense to kick China of the inter…

The internet is how we maintain dialogue between peoples when our Governments behave like posturing (arse|ass)+holes. The worse a Government behaves the more (not less) internets the country should receive.

"arseassarseholes"?!
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