The Attack on GitHub Must Stop
For many years, private organizations in the West have endured attacks by the Chinese government, its proxies, and other parties. These intruders infiltrated private organizations to steal data. Those not associated with the targeted organizations were generally not directly affected. Today an action by the Chinese government is affecting millions of users around the world. This is unacceptable. You may be aware that an American technology company, GitHub , is suffering a massive distributed denial of service attack, at the time of writing. According to Insight Labs , Internet traffic within China is being manipulated, such that users are essentially attacking GitHub. They are unwittingly requesting two sites hosted by GitHub. The first is a mirror of the Chinese edition of the New York Times (blocked for several years ). The other is a mirror of the GreatFire.org Web site, devoted to discovering and exposing Internet filtering by China's "Great Firewall." As n