At this point do they really have a option besides continue until Github caves because of mounting costs?
Admitting whoops, unauthorized sneaky hackers co-opted our national packet mangling infrastructure would be a LOT of egg on their face.
Admitting whoops, unauthorized sneaky hackers co-opted our national packet mangling infrastructure would be a LOT of egg on their face.
Really, at this point Github could probably put together a really nice blacklist of baidu users outside of china, and whitelist those that actually use the service. I can think of a couple of cute ways to accelerate the whitelisting.
Banking on Github not finding a good enough solution seems really risky.
Why not just ddos every time there's positive Github news? Ideally a half hour in advance of the event? China must know when MS is going to host some cool new project. China must know when the U.S. data service is going to host a cool new project. China must know when Github is going to announce a new feature.
This approach is just super half assed.
This is their architecture in 2009 https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast Couldn't find anything more recent.