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Wouldn't such news coverage only worsen the problem? After all, the attackers would receive a kind of confirmation of their goals.
by th0br0 12y ago
Wouldn't such news coverage only worsen the problem? After all, the attackers would receive a kind of confirmation of their goals.
- zerocored 12y agoThe same can be said for a wide range of criminal activities covered by the news.
- yc1010 12y agoIn this case the attack is motivated by desire to suppress knowledge of a project hosted on Github, publicity is what they fear most... Now to get back to the OPs question: 1. Mainstream media might have too much to lose if they criticize China, just like in many countries where property bubbles burst the mainstream media suppressed any mention of bubble forming since they were making out like bandits from advertising property, could be something similar happening here. 2. The story is a non-story outside nerd circles, now if Facebook or Twitter was being DDOSed your sure would hear about it since journalists do care about these sites.
- LamaOfRuin 12y agoOnly if github actually stopped hosting the attacked repositories. Otherwise it would be more of a Streisand effect, raising awareness of the workings of the great firewall and that there are effective tools that circumvent the filtering. The wider the attack is covered in the news the harder it is for censors to stop the flow of that particular information.