It's too weak as show of force from state government. GitHub is after all, a small civilian service, despite its prominence within tech community.
Even DDoS itself is not really a serious cyber warfare measure -- you can't really take down any major government agency (except their public-facing website) or core infrastructure with it. What's the biggest damage caused by DDoS in all of Internet's history?
Here is how I believe it goes down:
1, the new chairman issued mandate that he wants to crack down on accessing illegal content on Internet.
2, different department heads make this top of their priority.
3, somewhere down the management chain, a manager found those tools that help people accessing illegal content on Intenet.
4, the said manager himself, or one of his analysts figure if they bully GitHub with some DDoS, they'd cave and take down those tools. Points for promotion!
I doubt if even the US government takes this seriously.
Even DDoS itself is not really a serious cyber warfare measure -- you can't really take down any major government agency (except their public-facing website) or core infrastructure with it. What's the biggest damage caused by DDoS in all of Internet's history?
Here is how I believe it goes down:
1, the new chairman issued mandate that he wants to crack down on accessing illegal content on Internet.
2, different department heads make this top of their priority.
3, somewhere down the management chain, a manager found those tools that help people accessing illegal content on Intenet.
4, the said manager himself, or one of his analysts figure if they bully GitHub with some DDoS, they'd cave and take down those tools. Points for promotion!
I doubt if even the US government takes this seriously.