GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by wongarsu on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:00AM (#9284454)

If that was what the Chinese government wanted they could simply block all access from China to github. In fact they did that once but had to undo that because the damage to the IT sector would be too big. China doesn't want github inaccessible, they want github to take down repos which the Chinese censor doesn’t like.

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Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by gpvos on Sunday March 29, 2015 @07:46AM (#9284535)

Hmm, maybe Github could block all access from China except for these two projects, serve a special home page with install instructions, and make it so that with either of these installed you can access all of Github from China?

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Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack by army on Sunday March 29, 2015 @11:44AM (#9285217)

They can't selectively block parts of github when it's going over HTTPS. All they see is an encrypted connection from inside China to github.com.

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