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As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against "the bullies".

by gog 12y ago

butwhy 12y ago
I was anticipating the second half of your sentence being something like "they better maintain 100% uptime or I'll be pissed off". Glad it wasn't.
- tomelders 12y ago
  I assumed it was implied.
  - Swizec 12y ago
    As a non-paying customer I have seen nothing but 100% uptime and perfect service. If it weren't for HN and Twitter I wouldn't even know Github was under attack.
    - Vendan 12y ago
      Seriously, I had one page hang for about a second before responding, and honestly thought that was just my crappy wifi card(and may very well be).
    - drdaeman 12y ago
      OAuth seem to have sporadic issues, which, I guess, may cause failures to "Log in with Github" auth on some occasions. At least I've seen a few "connection refused"/"timeout" error notifications from one of the sites I manage. Don't know the successful login counts, so no idea how high the error rate is.
mckoss 12y ago
"Bully" is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don't allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses. Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of "bullying". GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.
- DanielBMarkham 12y ago
  It's become clear to me over the past 5-10 years or so that we're in some sort of weird undeclared war on the Internet. Nations are doing exactly what you describe, and it seems there is little to no repercussions for them doing so.
  - cubano 12y ago
    I agree...it seems much more akin to sport than militaristic action. Since sport is pretty much a direct offshoot of war, I think the analogy works ok.
  - frabcus 12y ago
    A long cold cyberwar http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/ http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/
- teamhappy 12y ago
  > perhaps an act of war > GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military. Are you sure you wanna go there? Think it through ;) Don't let me stop you though. Den Haag is lovely this time of year and I have this thing I want to talk over with you guys anyway.
  - dang 12y ago
    This goes well into flamewar territory. Please stay on topic and be civil.
    - teamhappy 12y ago
      Calling for military intervention is not flamewar territory, that's real war territory. I admit that I might have phrased the comment a little too sarcastic, but still, it's very much on topic (and civil.)
- yazin 12y ago
  The military?
joelx 12y ago
How many of us have websites that we can publish this story ourselves on? http://www.blog.joelx.com/ddos-attack-on-github-could-be-act-of-war/10328/ http://www.blog.joelx.com/ddos-attack-on-github-could-be-act...
medius 12y ago
I generally don't buy subscription software for personal use, but when I do, I buy from Github. And paying Github as a business is a no-brainer.
Grue3 12y ago
Too bad they bent over for Russian government though. I wouldn't bet on Github growing a spine anytime soon. If these attacks continue, Github will delete the material China wants them to. They already shown weakness once when they censored what Russia wanted to censor.
- mirhagk 12y ago
  The difference was that the russian government did actively attack them, it merely was trying to block illegal content. Github didn't remove the repo, they simply blocked that page for russian users. Also the material they were blocking was a suicide poem, and while free speech was being minorly impacted, all in all it's removal didn't affect very many people. In this case china is attacking them directly, and removing the repos in question would affect people's ability to use that software, greatly affecting freedom from censorship for many many people.

As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against "the bullies".

by gog 12y ago

As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against "the bullies".

butwhy 12y ago

I was anticipating the second half of your sentence being something like "they better maintain 100% uptime or I'll be pissed off". Glad it wasn't.

tomelders 12y ago
I assumed it was implied.
- Swizec 12y ago
  As a non-paying customer I have seen nothing but 100% uptime and perfect service. If it weren't for HN and Twitter I wouldn't even know Github was under attack.
  - Vendan 12y ago
    Seriously, I had one page hang for about a second before responding, and honestly thought that was just my crappy wifi card(and may very well be).
  - drdaeman 12y ago
    OAuth seem to have sporadic issues, which, I guess, may cause failures to "Log in with Github" auth on some occasions. At least I've seen a few "connection refused"/"timeout" error notifications from one of the sites I manage. Don't know the successful login counts, so no idea how high the error rate is.

mckoss 12y ago

"Bully" is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don't allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses. Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of "bullying". GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.

DanielBMarkham 12y ago
It's become clear to me over the past 5-10 years or so that we're in some sort of weird undeclared war on the Internet. Nations are doing exactly what you describe, and it seems there is little to no repercussions for them doing so.
- cubano 12y ago
  I agree...it seems much more akin to sport than militaristic action. Since sport is pretty much a direct offshoot of war, I think the analogy works ok.
- frabcus 12y ago
  A long cold cyberwar http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/ http://www.flourish.org/2015/01/long-cold-cyberwar/
teamhappy 12y ago
> perhaps an act of war > GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military. Are you sure you wanna go there? Think it through ;) Don't let me stop you though. Den Haag is lovely this time of year and I have this thing I want to talk over with you guys anyway.
- dang 12y ago
  This goes well into flamewar territory. Please stay on topic and be civil.
  - teamhappy 12y ago
    Calling for military intervention is not flamewar territory, that's real war territory. I admit that I might have phrased the comment a little too sarcastic, but still, it's very much on topic (and civil.)
yazin 12y ago
The military?

joelx 12y ago

How many of us have websites that we can publish this story ourselves on? http://www.blog.joelx.com/ddos-attack-on-github-could-be-act-of-war/10328/ http://www.blog.joelx.com/ddos-attack-on-github-could-be-act...

medius 12y ago

I generally don't buy subscription software for personal use, but when I do, I buy from Github. And paying Github as a business is a no-brainer.

Grue3 12y ago

Too bad they bent over for Russian government though. I wouldn't bet on Github growing a spine anytime soon. If these attacks continue, Github will delete the material China wants them to. They already shown weakness once when they censored what Russia wanted to censor.

mirhagk 12y ago
The difference was that the russian government did actively attack them, it merely was trying to block illegal content. Github didn't remove the repo, they simply blocked that page for russian users. Also the material they were blocking was a suicide poem, and while free speech was being minorly impacted, all in all it's removal didn't affect very many people. In this case china is attacking them directly, and removing the repos in question would affect people's ability to use that software, greatly affecting freedom from censorship for many many people.