<story><title>Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub</title><url>https://archive.today/KtgpS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RA_Fisher</author><text>Assuming this is the Chinese government, what&amp;#x27;s their end game here? They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently? That seems incredibly naive. Also, have they not considered the Streisand effect? Also, assuming they see Baidu as effectively a state asset, why poison that brand for such a temporary gain? It doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelt</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will 
  [...] That seems incredibly naive.
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Plenty of technology companies would. Of course, they would call it &amp;quot;complying with local laws in all countries in which we operate&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;The only way to find out if Github is such a company is a few months of successful attacks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Baidu Has Been Hijacked to Attack GitHub</title><url>https://archive.today/KtgpS</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RA_Fisher</author><text>Assuming this is the Chinese government, what&amp;#x27;s their end game here? They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently? That seems incredibly naive. Also, have they not considered the Streisand effect? Also, assuming they see Baidu as effectively a state asset, why poison that brand for such a temporary gain? It doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>&lt;i&gt;They must believe that GitHub will bow to their will and remove Greatfire or block it from China. Permanently?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, yes? Extraterritorial law enforcement works fine for the US, they&amp;#x27;re quite happy to shut down gambling, copyright infringement, and so on regardless of where you are in the world.&lt;p&gt;In this case, it&amp;#x27;s git. It&amp;#x27;s inherently distributed. It&amp;#x27;s fairly easy to force Chinese users onto a local equivalent and block all those suspicious outgoing https&amp;#x2F;ssh connections to github.</text></comment>