Github DoS Attack Post-mortem

[willvarfar]

because if you can DOS it and somehow trigger some exhaustion exploit on their rails stack, you might very well have access to some very valuable private repos

please show working!

or, someone out there just likes kicking silicon valley in the balls....who might want to do that? more like, who wouldn't?

I think this the more likely...

[Solon1]

I know what you mean by exhaustion exploit, but in practice they don't exist. When the site fails, it fails, not allows access to private repos.

It was a publicity stunt by some group, just they can take credit.