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		riscy on March 31, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub "Our analysis shows that only about 1% of the requests for the Baidu Analytics script are receiving the malicious javascript as response. So in 99% of the cases everything behaves just like normal." The way I see it, this has been a diagnostic test by the Chinese government, ensuring they have the power to globally take down any website (or servers) they please.

allochthon on March 31, 2015 [–]

Possibly. But whoever's behind it end up looking kind of bad, since Github has not capitulated.

coldcode on March 31, 2015 | [–]

But if it were 100% would github be able to survive?

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