[mkrecny]

Probably a stupid question, but, what are the potential motivators behind DDoS-ing Github?

[bitdiffusion]

Two possibilities:

1. Boredom 2. Infamy (although nobody seems to claim responsibility for attacks like this so not sure how that can be a motivating factor - but who knows).

[bradleyland]

3. Extortion.

[Anderkent]

4. Competition 5. General maliciousness (wohoo I managed to annoy so many people)

[timmorgan]

GitHub has competitors.

[selectnull]

An interesting idea and I have honest question: would anyone in the industry risk DDOS-ing a competitor?

I mean, sooner or later they would get caught, the news would spread like a wildfire, that would really be great PR for the attacked.

Any ideas on that? Does anyone have a case where that actually happened?

[Anderkent]

>I mean, sooner or later they would get caught, the news would spread like a wildfire, that would really be great PR for the attacked.

That's nowhere near certain.

[ethomson]

Which competitors in particular are you suggesting might be DDoS'ing them?