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: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:15AM
Yes it appears that you have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China [wikipedia.org]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/18/china-killing-prisoners-to-harvest-organs-for-transplant-tribunal-finds/#1de4f1a53d41 [forbes.com]
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646 [nbcnews.com]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nightmare-of-human-organ-harvesting-in-china-11549411056 [wsj.com]
https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/chinese-dissidents-are-being-executed-for-their-organs-former-hospital-worker-says/ [nypost.com]
China has the weird ability to be able to schedule you an organ transplant after you work with their hospitals and provide a sample of your DNA and bloodwork, sometimes as little as two weeks out. Some of the first concerns about the organ trade in China was from an Israeli doctor who had a patent on a wait list for years and within two weeks of making a connection with a hospital in China found a perfect match, highly unlikely.
China has ever-expanding laws that get you put in prison camps. Political descent, being Muslim, etc. When you are desensitized to killing your own people for their organs, how long until having the wrong DNA/bloodwork becomes a crime when your boss needs a new kidney? Would be a shame if someone mistakenly hit your credit score.