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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"?!
Is how i would write it, +/- a case insensitive flag.
What is Github's backend like? Do they use cloud service providers or do they manage their own infrastructure? Highly curious to know how Github is preventing the site from crashing down.
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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...
I doubt the Chinese government is behind the attack - except for maybe not caring enough to do anything about it. Basically the government doesn't really care what other people do outside the Chinese Internet, and just block anything they don't want local people to read. Far more likely is a 'red hacker', e.g. Someone hacking for patriotic reasons and has taken issue with those projects hosted on GitHub. It may well…
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For what it's worth there's an article[1] from Craig Hockenberry. His servers were hit by massive amounts of traffic from China earlier this year, targeted (randomly?) at Iconfactory's website. The charts are quite impressive. [1] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
That (52 Mbit/s) was extremely small in comparison to modern DDoS attacks (which can be in the hundreds to thousands of Gbit/s). It could have been launched from a single raspberry pi with a 100 Mbit/s residential uplink.
Can Github ask for US Government help with it, since it's an attack by [presumably] foreign sovereign entity? It's paying taxes in US, right — so it may expect some kind of protection, isn't this what taxes are about?
looks like github is announcing via prolexic for protection now?
How can you tell?
This attack is perhaps just a taste of something nastier. The GitHub infrastructure is rock solid and gives valuable real time information via its status dashboard . This seems ideal for measuring the impact of an attack before choosing a more critical target.