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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by e79 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @12:54AM (#9294452)
Yes but they don't explain what the mitigation is.
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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by dandelany on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:00AM (#9294468)
During an ongoing attack? I wonder why not...
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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by e79 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:06AM (#9294485)
Right. Not looking for specifics. My curiosity would be satisfied by something like "we've reached out to Baidu and they've done X and Y. Meanwhile, traffic has decreased so we've unblocked the affected repos."

Just a bit more transparency on the situation.

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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by mkesper on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:29AM (#9294824)
It's not baidu.com that serves that malicious code, it gets inserted on its way through the Great Fire Wall.
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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by enraged_camel on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:38AM (#9294564)
They might release a post-mortem once it's over, but I wouldn't expect any transparency during the attack itself.
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