[JoeCortopassi]

Care to elaborate why GitHub would be a target for a state sponsored DDOS attack? Seems a little far-fetched, for a website that is virtually unknown outside of the developer community

[Tipzntrix]

While not as famous as Tor in Iran, for example, there are VPN implementations on GitHub, in addition to what rcthompson said.

[rcthompson]

In the broadest sense, github is a site where anyone can upload and publicize any file of reasonable size. Depending on who is uploading what, that could easily make them a target.

[moe]

In the broadest sense, about 10 million web-forums and similar sites also match your description...

Why would they go for github of all things?

[Dirlewanger]

There's some statistic out there somewhere from some paper which found out that like 3 out of every 4 (or something ridiculous like that) cyber attack on the US government comes from China so...it's not that farfetched.

[dbaupp]

I don't quite see how that is relevant to a non-US government entity like GitHub.