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What do they possibly get by DDoS'ng GitHub ? Is this out of pure malice or are there any probable commercial gains to this?

• maxander 11y ago
  There's two common flavors of comment on this post, namely "why would anyone do this?" and "well, I guess that means I can't do any work this morning." These could go together somehow. :)
  • JustSomeNobody 11y ago
    Indeed.
• drzaiusapelord 11y ago
  Considering its the Chinese government, yet again, its probably a mix of both. It makes it harder for their nationals to get VPN software that goes through their firewall and also is an assholic statement against the West's ideas about freedom of speech, assembly, and peaceful changes of power via popular elections and multi-party government. The Chinese are most likely hoping they can force github to get rid of these projects by threatening periodic DDOSing. They also probably feel emasculated that South Korea told their pet regime to knock off the stupidity and China and North Korea capitulated to their demands yet again. The timing of this is far from a coincidence. China's foreign policy is almost 100% hinged on having North Korea attack the west with impunity and they don't like that Park is actually pushing back against this dynamic. So now China is having its hissy fit on Github instead on the Korean peninsula. Yeah, lets keep rewarding them with factory contracts, right guys?
• rem7 11y ago
  Someone doesn't wanna work today.