GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors. The service's status page reported “a brief capacity overload” early on Tuesday. The site's assessment of the incident was later upgraded to a a DDOS and at the time of writing the site is at code yellow. The graphic at the stop of …
There are some pretty big projects on GitHub. I know some open source projects on there that are pretty valuable to some people. I think people attack because they can and, well, it's rails so it will fail.
The value of DVCS is that even if the canonical repo like GitHub goes down, it's pretty painless to setup a new one based on a local repo. Project data like the bug reports are less resilient.
Depends on what you consider valuable. Ddos is mainly run for 2 reasons
a) damaging someone's business
b) preventing users from accessing information
Github hosts and promotes many projects circumventing filters and firewalls and promoting free speech - something which countries such as China don't like too much.
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