[tegansnyder]

Thank is exactly what I was thinking. Who in their right mind would want to do that?

[maratd]

Someone who wants to test the limits of their botnet and technique. Can you think of a more tech savvy target?

[SethMurphy]

Attacking a rails application, you would be proud of that? Rails sites are not exactly known for their performance.

[donavanm]

DDOSs are typically defeated through buying lots and lots of transit. That's an exercise in outspending your adversary.

A small entity like github should be trivial to saturate.

[lucisferre]

Amazon.

[bkanber]

Amazon has a service outage every time you look at it funny, much less a DDoS...

hyuk, hyuk

[adgar2]

Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.

[tensor]

Most startups? Name even one startup in the same league as the others you've named.