[thaumasiotes]

> One of my friends used the same strategy to block DDOS from China : just put "Falun Gong" on there and it was resolved instantly.

...because attacks from China are horrified at the thought of disrupting Falun Gong?

[dspillett]

Because it is one of the things that will get you added to the blocklists that form part of the Great Firewall of China.

It won't stop a hacker who is probably bypassing parts of that anyway, but the more casual requests such as those caused by deep linking will generally stop getting through.