Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From Chinese Government

An anonymous reader writes: During the past two days, popular code hosting site GitHub has been under a DDoS attack, which has led to intermittent service interruptions. As blogger Anthr@X reports from traceroute lists, the attack originated from MITM-modified JavaScript files for the Chinese company Baidu's user tracking code, changing the unencrypted content as it passed through the great firewall of China to request the URLs github.com/greatfire/ and github.com/cn-nytimes/. The Chinese government's dislike of widespread VPN usage may have caused it to arrange the attack, where only people accessing Baidu's services from outside the firewall would contribute to the DDoS. This wouldn't have been the first time China arranged this kind of "protest."

Comments

I love the alert they changed the page to

[Anonymous Coward]

To fight back they have changed those projects to be

alert("WARNING: malicious javascript detected on this domain")

So the user sees a message =)

Re:Ancient Chinese wisdom

[dave420]

Can't you figure out how to use chopsticks? Poor baby.

Re:Socialism

[blueg3]

Well, the acronym for Socialist In Name Only is "sino".