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On Tuesday, Don HO, the developer of Notepad++, a free GPL source code editor and notepad application for Microsoft Windows, released version 7.8.1, prompting a social media firestorm and a distributed denial of service attack. Notepad++ v7.8.1 was designated "the Free Uyghur edition," in reference to the predominantly Muslim ethnic group in western China that faces ongoing human rights violations and persecution at the hands of Beijing.
"The site notepad-plus-plus.org has suffered DDoS attack from 1230 to 1330 Paris time," HO said in an email to The Register. "I saw the [reduced] amount of visitors via Google analytics then the support of my host confirmed the attack. The DDoS attack has been stopped by an anti-DDoS service provided by our host [Cloudflare]."
[...] For expressing that sentiment, the project's website was DDoSed and its GitHub code repository has been flooded with angry comments in the Issues section – intended for people to report bugs or offer suggestions.
HO said Notepad++'s Tiananmen Square release didn't really attract much attention. The Charlie Hebdo release, however, got his site hacked. "The reaction of this time is more like 'Boycott Beijing 2008 OG' on the Notepad++ website, while Notepad++ was on SourceForge," he said, noting that SourceForge forum was similarly flooded by Chinese spammers in 2008.
Also at The Verge.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @07:02PM
Funny you mention Israel considering it's one of the few nations to have made it illegal for its insurance agencies to provide coverage for organ trade or the required followup medical treatment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China#Responses_from_other_governments [wikipedia.org]
That is, drugs and medical care following such transplants isn't covered in Israel. Meaning, when someone comes back with a fresh organ, the insurance company will open an investigation into the matter and will have a real financial interest in uncovering evidence of illegal trade. They'll look up back statements. Send investigators to the hospitals interviewing the harvesting and transplanting doctors. Checkup with the donor's family... People were rejected follow-up treatment by the insurance companies numerous times. It even made it to the courts a couple of times.
So, what does your country does to prevent organ trade?