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Except this particular attack is not coming from Chinese IPs, rather from visitors of Chinese websites from outside China.
by igammarays 12y ago
Except this particular attack is not coming from Chinese IPs, rather from visitors of Chinese websites from outside China.
- rtpg 12y agoright, which is why unfortunately github couldn't counter by piping in some anti-china propaganda or something. As a sidenote though, VPN users are probably also affected.
- rst 12y agoMaybe they could -- it might not be a wise move, particularly given the political tensions which obviously exist already, and it would certainly be inflammatory, but it may well be technically possible. Github serves HTML over HTTPS, which means that if they started putting a few well-chosen words in Chinese in every HTML page served to China, the only thing the government could easily do about it would be to block github from Chinese users entirely -- which they've already tried once, and didn't keep up, presumably because cutting off github for more than a few days poses problems for their own domestic software sector.
- grrowl 12y agoChinese VPN users are absolutely affected, and in fast this puts more pressure on Chinese-used VPN services, and to a lesser extent the users, too.