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For github, this is a smart move. But, really, you can hardly negotiate with Chinese government. I'm pretty sure that they will deny this attack and re-emphasi
by dengnan 12y ago
For github, this is a smart move.
But, really, you can hardly negotiate with Chinese government. I'm pretty sure that they will deny this attack and re-emphasize their so-called Internet policy.
If I were github, instead of a warning message, I would redirect the workload to some Chinese government's website and let them suffer what they've created. Let's face it, they are waging a war on the Internet first.
Edit: Disclaimer: I know that my post is quite biased, especially this one. I'm not suggesting that people should wage a war to Chinese government. Please take my words just as a (biased?) sample from an ordinary Chinese citizen who is really tired of the government's censorship.
- j4sonstath 12y agoI think you are wrong here. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty! Also I don't think its hard to negotiate with the Chinese government unless you are an ambassador and had previous experience with them before? And any government would deny an attack under any circumstances... if not that leaves them exposed!
- hobs 12y agoCould you be more of a sock puppet in this discussion?
- pbuckley 12y agoThat's an insult to sock puppets everywhere.
- kardos 12y agoThe Chinese government is for sure a plausible culprit here, but consider that the American government (NSA, or another TLA) is also a plausible culprit. If this ends up successfully blamed on the Chinese, it builds support for "cyberwar" defence funding in the US.
- hobs 12y agokardos, that is fair. I do not know which government entity paid for this poster, just that as usual someone is trying to sway online opinion with their workforce.
- verroq 12y agoThe wu-mao is real.
- dagw 12y agoLet's face it, they are waging a war on the Internet first. The two most important aspects in war are casus belli and plausible deniability. China has the latter and github lacks the former. Thus github would lose by default in any 'war' against the Chinese government.
- tedunangst 12y agoHow would github redirect the load?
- ninjaoxygen 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301
- eli 12y agoI think you are underestimating the volume of traffic. Simple generating that many 301s would be an issue. And... where would you redirect to?
- kevinchen 12y agoGenerating a 301 is certainly less work than rendering the entire user's profile page.
- spartas 12y agoGenerating a 301 is likely more work. Profile pages are simple database hits, and they may be dynamically or even statically cached (for popular pages). You're probably severely underestimating how much traffic China can produce [1]. 1. http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/ http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
- true_religion 12y agoA 301 avoids a database hit, and avoids having to go through the cache framework all together. It just says given this URL, we return an header that tells the browser to redirect. The only thing faster would be just dropping the connection as soon as its given to you.
- rookieljw 12y agoExcuse me, Why no 403 or 404?
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