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taspeotis on March 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub under DDoS attack right now (again...)

Well if your competitor used GitHub for (source control|issue tracking|deploying from a GitHub repository) you could DDoS GitHub (bit of colatoral here and there) for some illegitimate advantage.

skylan_q on March 21, 2014 [–]

A competitor could also face charges for this sort of activity, couldn't they?

aroch on March 21, 2014 | [–]

Law enforcement would have to work up the caring to actual track you down. There are hundreds/thousands/tons of [D]DoSs launched everyday from 10MB/s to colossal 400Gbps attacks. 99+% of attacks aren't going to be investigated.

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