<story><title>GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack</title><url>https://status.github.com/messages?latest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Qantourisc</author><text>We should never take up arms for a thread that has no human casualties, especially when there are alternatives.
If your neighbour enter your home uninvited, because the door is not locked, the first thing you do is ask nicely not to do that. The next thing you do is lock the door. You don&amp;#x27;t start shooting at them first ...</text></item><item><author>mckoss</author><text>&amp;quot;Bully&amp;quot; is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator.  This attack is criminal.  If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war.  We don&amp;#x27;t allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses.  Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of &amp;quot;bullying&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.</text></item><item><author>gog</author><text>As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against &amp;quot;the bullies&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>briandear</author><text>So if a government shut down US airports for 72 hours but resulting in no loss of life, should we just sit back and do nothing? A risk to human life isn&amp;#x27;t the only threshold that determines retaliation. A risk to economic activity is just as provocative as physical violence. How about if they attacked the power grid? A huge number of companies&amp;#x27;s businesses depend on services like github. Do we just hold hands and choose to pray for a solution or do we hit the perpetrators in the gut? If the Chinese are behind it, we should immediately start seizing their US assets until such time as they put an end to the nonsense. If the Chinese can thwart Google, they sure as hell have the means to stop a cyber attack from their soil: even if they are directly the ones doing it. Alternatively, their cables could be cut (there are only about 7 that connect China with the outside Internet.) if someone is spraying you with a firehouse, cutting off their water supply is a just and reasonable response.</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack</title><url>https://status.github.com/messages?latest</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Qantourisc</author><text>We should never take up arms for a thread that has no human casualties, especially when there are alternatives.
If your neighbour enter your home uninvited, because the door is not locked, the first thing you do is ask nicely not to do that. The next thing you do is lock the door. You don&amp;#x27;t start shooting at them first ...</text></item><item><author>mckoss</author><text>&amp;quot;Bully&amp;quot; is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator.  This attack is criminal.  If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war.  We don&amp;#x27;t allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private businesses.  Neither should we treat this attack as a simple act of &amp;quot;bullying&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;GitHub should get the full support of federal law enforcement, if not the military.</text></item><item><author>gog</author><text>As a paying customer of Github I want them to know they have my undivided support in staying strong against &amp;quot;the bullies&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trekky1700</author><text>They didn&amp;#x27;t just enter an unlocked door. They&amp;#x27;re smashing GitHub&amp;#x27;s windows, kicking GitHub&amp;#x27;s dog and flipping over furniture.</text></comment>