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This is getting ridiculous. There are so many sites to attack, why Github?
by cvburgess 13y ago
This is getting ridiculous. There are so many sites to attack, why Github?
- valevk 13y agoMaybe some "corporations" are getting "harmed" because there is so much free code around, and they don't like that. I don't know...
- taspeotis 13y agoWell if your competitor used GitHub for (source control|issue tracking|deploying from a GitHub repository) you could DDoS GitHub (bit of colatoral here and there) for some illegitimate advantage.
- skylan_q 13y agoA competitor could also face charges for this sort of activity, couldn't they?
- aroch 13y agoLaw enforcement would have to work up the caring to actual track you down. There are hundreds/thousands/tons of [D]DoSs launched everyday from 10MB/s to colossal 400Gbps attacks. 99+% of attacks aren't going to be investigated.
- philwelch 13y agoThey have had some bad press lately....
- doyoulikeworms 13y agoCould this be in any way related to Julie Ann Horvath's treatment at the company?
- bleakcabal 13y agoI don't know, it's happened frequently in the past as well.
- testacular 13y agoSeems unlikely. I've used GitHub for a long time, and they've been unreliable for a long time. Fortunately git mostly works well, even when your repo has unpredictable reliability.
- lectrick 13y agoI didn't know the story. From http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/19/3416013/github-julie-ann-horvath-sexism/ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/03/19/3416013/github-j... : "The sight of her male coworkers leering at a group of women in the office was the last straw for Github’s first female hire." Take a workplace with all-men, and due to sheer probability you're going to get a lot of leerers when any number of women walk in. That's really a bit unfair of an assessment. I'd like to see what happens when an attractive man walks into a workplace that is all-women.
- doyoulikeworms 13y agoI'm not commenting on the situation at all. Just speculating. I wouldn't have made that comment had I known that DDoSes on GitHub were not uncommon.
- mercurial 13y agoIt can be for a number of reasons, but I doubt script kiddies are champions of feminism. If it's professional criminals, they won't care one way or another.
- skylan_q 13y agoI'd like to see what happens when an attractive man walks into a workplace that is all-women I've been in this situation a few times and it makes me feel incredibly terrified.
- kjs3 13y ago> That's really a bit unfair of an assessment. The point is that it should be acceptable in either circumstance, not that you shouldn't complain about what happens in an majority male environment because something analogous might happen in a majority female environment.
- bdcravens 13y agoMaybe there's a perception that since Github is mostly "free", there's less likelihood of prosecution? Maybe Github is most visible site that isn't heavily fortified against DDoS? Is there a common DDoS toolkit out there, and Github is in the example.conf?
- thiderman 13y agoIf you have a DDoS network, taking down something large like Github is a good way to display your power to any potential customer.
- bzbarsky 13y agoWhat makes you think other sites aren't being attacked as well?