Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub

Re:Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub by 1stop on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:42AM (#9309796)

... I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious. But seriously... What "Mass destruction" can the GFW cause? ... Like Amazon/Azure/Rackspace are WMDs under your current definition?

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Re:Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub by Karunamon on Thursday April 02, 2015 @10:52AM (#9311007)

I think the attack has proven that the government via the GFW can take down any web service they choose. There's not much infrastructure out there than can repel firepower of that magnitude.

Maybe not "destruction" in the permanent sense, but given the damage that a DDOS can do (financially, at least), it would make sense to treat one as an attack on infrastructure.

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Re:Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub by jakub- on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:06AM (#9310108)

Mass destruction of freedom of access to Western academic research, journalism and social ties.

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