I agree - but it might just be deflection. The Chinese could use the same argument to assert they bore no responsibility. Besides - everybody has jquery cache

I agree - but it might just be deflection. The Chinese could use the same argument to assert they bore no responsibility. Besides - everybody has jquery cached. Why create an ajax from scratch and add to the weight of the crap they are injecting into the script? For quick and dirty I like it. Its not exactly long term or really destructive - but its kind of a cute and clever attack. Github's response to pop an alert was priceless. Sure it probably annoyed the hell out of millions of Chinese people - and their government will probably claim Github attacked them --- but the truth will out... maybe. Totalitarian regimes are shady as hell.