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If you DDOS GitHub as a whole, how does that call attention to the one project a bad guy has trojaned? If the project has mostly "commercial" developers then c
by rogerbinns 14y ago
If you DDOS GitHub as a whole, how does that call attention to the one project a bad guy has trojaned?
If the project has mostly "commercial" developers then chances are they work on it during the week. DDOS GitHub during the week and let off for the weekend. That gives a few days worth for your trojan to be downloaded by the unsuspecting. People will also have tired hearing about the "github news" so new news about trojaning will take a little longer to disperse.
- dguido 14y agoThat's completely unnecessary and potentially risky for the attacker. Your theory is not based in reality. DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
- mememememememe 14y agoBut... what commercial projects can possibly be on GitHub that worth this trouble? Facebook's C++ compiler? .... If there is such commercial product, it would have been self-hosted. Not GitHub.
- rogerbinns 14y agoHere are some random ones off the top of my head. I'm happy to accept that you can't think of any value of these to bad guys, but the bad guys are not limited by your or my imagination. MongoDB and all the drivers https://github.com/mongodb https://github.com/mongodb Mixpanel analytics libraries https://github.com/mixpanel https://github.com/mixpanel Sencha Javascript libraries https://github.com/senchalabs https://github.com/senchalabs Yahoo YUI and various other JS related gunk https://github.com/yahoo https://github.com/yahoo Shopify ecommerce libraries https://github.com/Shopify https://github.com/Shopify Engine Yard tools & utils https://github.com/engineyard https://github.com/engineyard