Chinese government forced Github developer to pull code. - Polidicks

[IMG]http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ss-640x348.png[/IMG] [QUOTE]GitHub, the software project and collaboration site, suffered another distributed denial of service attack on Tuesday morning, making the site unavailable to many users for several hours. But unlike the relentless DDoS attack the site suffered in March—an attack directed by code linked to China's "Great Firewall"—GitHub's team was able to fight back and shrug off the attack in a matter of hours instead of days. The site was likely targeted, as in March, because of software projects hosted on the site that have allowed Chinese Internet users to bypass the Great Firewall's packet filtering and inspection tools, keeping their traffic hidden from surveillance. This round of DDoS attacks comes as a number of Chinese software developers who used the site to share software capable of bypassing their country's national Internet filters apparently were forced to pull their projects from GitHub. In one case the move was reportedly mandated by law enforcement in China. That project was Shadowsocks, a secure SOCKS5 proxy plug-in protocol for Internet users and one of the most popular Great Firewall circumvention tools in China. The developer, who posted under the username clowwindy, reported on GitHub on August 22, [B]"Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey. I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.[/B]" He later deleted that comment, leaving only a statement, "I believe you guys will make great stuff with Network Extensions." However, the code for Shadowsocks has been mirrored elsewhere on GitHub.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/github-attacked-again-as-chinese-developers-forced-to-pull-code-by-police/"]Source[/URL]

Anyone got a mirror?

The Great Firewall is dumb, but he was breaking the law. If he didn't take it down, then GitHub would have eventually.

[QUOTE=download;48603586]Anyone got a mirror?[/QUOTE] Yeah can't someone outside of China host the code? Github doesn't seem to be blocked in China so I'm guessing Chinese can view all projects from outsiders.

[QUOTE=download;48603586]Anyone got a mirror?[/QUOTE] [url]https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/archive/2.8.2.zip[/url]

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;48603615]The Great Firewall is dumb, but he was breaking the law. If he didn't take it down, then GitHub would have eventually.[/QUOTE] Well yknow Github isn't a chinese company, so... [editline]2nd September 2015[/editline] What bothers me is that Github potentially released information on the victim. [editline]2nd September 2015[/editline] I like how its legal for the chinese government to DDoS another country, hack US servers, and gets away with it. There really needs to be repercussions for this sort of thing.

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;48603615]The Great Firewall is dumb, but he was breaking the law. If he didn't take it down, then GitHub would have eventually.[/QUOTE] I don't think GitHub would or should be under any obligation to remove code from their site based on the demands of the Chinese government. This article makes me wonder why people try and pretend China is anything remotely resembling a first world country when they literally send police to your house if you try and circumvent their firewall lol.

[QUOTE=Banhfunbags;48603615]The Great Firewall is dumb, but he was breaking the law. If he didn't take it down, then GitHub would have eventually.[/QUOTE] That is no excuse for the government to launch an attack on GitHub imo its time the rest of the world starts bringing down some repercussions on countries that perform cyber attacks. [sp]TRUMP 2016[/sp]

[QUOTE=srobins;48604181]I don't think GitHub would or should be under any obligation to remove code from their site based on the demands of the Chinese government. This article makes me wonder why people try and pretend China is anything remotely resembling a first world country when they literally send police to your house if you try and circumvent their firewall lol.[/QUOTE] I can't believe the USA is a first world country when the Government spies on all of it's citizens :cat:

[QUOTE=Map in a box;48604148] What bothers me is that Github potentially released information on the victim. [/QUOTE] [quote]GitHub may disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas or when your actions violate the Terms of Service.[/quote] You expected them not to?

[QUOTE=lyna;48604203]I can't believe the USA is a first world country when the Government spies on all of it's citizens :cat:[/QUOTE] The difference is that when we find out about it we can make a huge uproar and we won't get jailed or "disappeared".

[QUOTE=Scratch.;48604343]You expected them not to?[/QUOTE] So a foreign government subpoenad them. Impressive.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;48604601]So a foreign government subpoenad them. Impressive.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE][I]such as[/I][/QUOTE] "special considerations" could really mean anything github wants, within a code of ethic they follow

Haha this fork is great: [url]https://github.com/Shadowsocksfork/ShadowsocksFork[/url] It has [url=https://github.com/Shadowsocksfork/ShadowsocksFork/issues/1]one open issue[/url] that Google Translates to "This account I no longer log in, the password is automatically generated, I do not remember, I wish you good luck."

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;48604552]The difference is that when we find out about it we can make a huge uproar and we won't get jailed or "disappeared".[/QUOTE] Explain Snowden then, he made an uproar, now he is being persecuted.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;48604148] [editline]2nd September 2015[/editline] I like how its legal for the chinese government to DDoS another country, hack US servers, and gets away with it. There really needs to be repercussions for this sort of thing.[/QUOTE] Who says it is legal? It is not like the US waits for Chinese hacking attempts with open arms, but there is very little you can do directly since 1- It is very difficult to tie such a crime to the government directly and 2- Even when you do, since the hacker(s) are in China most of the time it is very difficult to take action against them.

[QUOTE=Fetret;48604871]Who says it is legal? It is not like the US waits for Chinese hacking attempts with open arms, but there is very little you can do directly since 1- It is very difficult to tie such a crime to the government directly and 2- Even when you do, since the hacker(s) are in China most of the time it is very difficult to take action against them.[/QUOTE] well the government openly admitted this and actively don't investigate hacks originating from their country. There is such a thing as international law, you know.