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Because no one cares about GitHub. If it was Facebook...
by smackfu 12y ago
Because no one cares about GitHub. If it was Facebook...
- coldcode 12y agoI wonder if you created a page on FB for GreatFire and promoted it what would FB do? I imagine they are too big to be successfully DDOS'd but I would think they could kiss China goodbye forever. So I imagine they would simply ban it.
- burger_moon 12y agoAfter a quick google search, it looks like last year they were brought down temporarily from what might have been a ddos. http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/21/heres-video-of-the-cyber-attack-that-may-have-spurred-this-weeks-facebook-outage/ http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/21/heres-video-of-the-cyber-at...
- pyre 12y agoI've heard that the outage was a screw-up by a junior programmer that was accidentally given too much access to the system by his/her supervisor. Apparently a bad configuration was applied to their servers. This seems to match up with the official Facebook announcement linked in that article.
- grandalf 12y agohow hard would it be for someone to do this attack to facebook? I'm guessing Facebook has already faced this kind of attack and designed its systems to be resilient to it.