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I do wonder why GitHub gets hit, and people say it's a high profile target, yes almost definitely. Another thought occurs to me though, I guess one of the prob
by xedarius 11y ago
I do wonder why GitHub gets hit, and people say it's a high profile target, yes almost definitely.
Another thought occurs to me though, I guess one of the problems when writing a DDoS is measuring how well it performs. The GitHub status screen provides a lot of useful metrics for tuning such an attack.
- niuzeta 11y agoIf I may posit... 1. Github is very well known and cater specifically for the tech crowd. So, an attack on Github is more likely to be talked in the tech crowd, which I would assume the people who would try out DDoS attacks be more likely to be part of. Validation is a weird thing. 2. In a convoluted sense, taking down Github doesn't harm as many bystanders. If that makes any sense... 3. As you've mentioned, very clear useful metrics for the attacks. 4. Crowding effect? Maybe attacking Github has become some 'cool' things to try in that community. I'm just imagining at this point.
- mightybyte 11y ago> Validation is a weird thing. And bragging rights. Imagine the street cred you get amongst that community if you take down something like github...
- juliangoldsmith 11y ago>I do wonder why GitHub gets hit, and people say it's a high profile target, yes almost definitely. It could be related to things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101469