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Github DDoS Attack As Seen By Google
New submitter opensec writes: Last month GitHub was hit by a massive DDoS attack originating from China. On this occasion the public discovered that the NSA was not the only one with a QUANTUM-like capability. China has its own "Great Cannon" that can inject malicious JavaScript inside HTTP traffic. That weapon was used in the GitHub attack. People using Baidu services were unwitting participants in the denial of service, their bandwidth used to flood the website. But such a massive subversion of the Internet could not evade Google's watchful eye. Niels Provos, engineer at Google, tells us how it happened. Showing that such attacks cannot be made covertly, Provos hopes that the public shaming will act as a deterrent.
The US (ie. the US government, and to some extend every western country) needs an enemy. They can't just live their lives. They need a red herring to drive the masses to buy their shit (including policies). The population has been conditioned to woe hatred against a mythical being. It used to be the Russian, it was a great lengthy success. Terrorists don't provide such a good target, the notion is too diffuse, but it's a great tool to fill the gap. Now, the Chinese are perfect.