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Under DDOS

• garand 13y ago
  Why do people do this?
  • TheRubyist 13y ago
    Fo $
  • dsjoerg 13y ago
    Because single points of failure are a big KICK ME sign. http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB http://bit.ly/ZwhmHB
    • sp332 13y ago
      Link shorteners are discouraged on HN. http://amyfelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/159580000x-kick-me-countermeasures1.jpg http://amyfelts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/159580000x-ki... (It's just a cartoon of a "kick me" sign.)
• gabipurcaru 13y ago
  Who would do that to GitHub?
  • bdcravens 13y ago
    Lots of folks: 1) someone who is adversely affected by software hosted there 2) someone who sells source code hosting and sees GitHub as competitor 3) someone wanting to demonstrate fragility of software that relies on GitHub for underlying package management (such as NPM) 4) someone wanting to disrupt a blog that uses GitHub as the data store etc
• kevinastone 13y ago
  They say that for every outage.