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Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#31

The fact that someone would target GitHub for a massive DDoS attack makes me sick to the stomach.

Any company that makes most or all of its money online is the subject of DDoS attacks for blackmail purposes, github a bit more so because the Chinese government doesn't like it.

It's unfortunately a very normal thing these days.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#32

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…

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…

> the government wants to cut us off from the rest of the world, that would make them happy

Chinas ability to manufacture and sell hinges critically on internet connectivity. Of all the sanctions that would be effective I think an internet blockade is one of the more practical and effective ones.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#33
post #7

So.. Every website running baidu analytics is going to show a warning popup to all visitors, on every page?

What I would like to know is why they used a generic malware warning. Couldn't they send an alert with an actual explanation (in Chinese and English) of what's going on, so users are made aware of the issue?

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#35
post #25

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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"?!

It's legit. https://regex101.com/r/qY0tO9/1

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#36
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"?!

Taking your question at face value, some people say "arseholes", some people say "assholes", and some people just say "holes". We can factor out the "holes" to get that some people say "arse", some people say "ass", and some say nothing extra. We get alternation in regular expressions by separating them with a vertical bar, so we have a regular expression:

    arse | ass
That's optional, so we have the regular expression:

    (arse|ass)+
Put back the "holes" and we get the regular expression:

    (arse|ass)+holes
Clear?

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#37
post #20

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…

> > Which raises the question: when will the rest of the world kick China of the internet? Well, that's exactly what the DDoS wanted, so the government could just happily control all access to Internet in mainland China The DDoS targets github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes by their so called "collateral freedom" [1] Suppose github could just ban Chinese IP all together, but @greatfire could easily jump to a…

If that was what the Chinese government wanted they could simply block all access from China to github. In fact they did that once but had to undo that because the damage to the IT sector would be too big. China doesn't want github inaccessible, they want github to take down repos which the Chinese censor doesn’t like.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#38
post #27
post #21

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.

I assumed it was implied.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#39
The PRC's DDoS of GitHub seems a little risky.[1] If GitHub is inventive (or desperate) enough, they could call on their users for aid. The perpetrators would immediately draw the ire of vast numbers of talented programmers. And GitHub is positioned to direct this ire toward useful ends. They could encourage users to contribute to GreatFire, or even start other initiatives and projects to stymie censorship. The outcome could easily be worse for the PRC than if the attack had never happened.

1. Even if this isn't a PRC-ordered or sponsored attack, large parts of their infrastructure are being co-opted. If they aren't criminally involved, they're criminally irresponsible.

Re: GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"arseassarseholes"?!

Taking your question at face value, some people say "arseholes", some people say "assholes", and some people just say "holes". We can factor out the "holes" to get that some people say "arse", some people say "ass", and some say nothing extra. We get alternation in regular expressions by separating them with a vertical bar, so we have a regular expression: arse | ass That's optional, so we have the regular expression…

Taking your confusion at face value, what you should have done is to use a question mark ‘?’ instead of a plus sign ‘+’. Otherwise, the string which oneeyedpigeon posted also matches your regexp.
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