China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub

Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by teamhappy on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:52AM (#9295789)

So what's the rule then? Block all packets coming out of countries with governments that do MITM attacks? Blame the companies for not locating their servers in other countries? Companies like GitHub? This is so hypocritical.

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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by nailer on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @09:26AM (#9295955)

> So what's the rule then? Block all packets coming out of countries with governments that do MITM attacks?

Block packets from any company that does not take reasonable steps to stop its network from being used to attack others.

This has been networking rule for a long time.

- We block open mail relays

- we block hacked Windows XP machines

- we should block a company who's in a hacked data center where their upstream adds malicious JavaScript.

Edit: 'we' = network administrators.

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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by teamhappy on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @09:43AM (#9296053)

I assumed you were talking about our governments when you said we. Who's stopping you from blocking whatever you want? Or from creating a public block list for that matter. You have to convince me to install it on my machines though. :P

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Re:China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub by woah on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:07PM (#9297980)

I think they are addressing their fellow network admins with that comment

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