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posted by chromas on Friday November 01 2019, @03:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the (Score:⠀-1,⠀Spam) dept.

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @10:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @10:56PM (#914846)

    "The Palestinian Muslims that were injured by Israeli white phosphorus munitions were in a war zone between two nations and refused to follow the evacuation order issued 24 hours in advance."
    Would that be the order to "fuck off into the sea and swim to where you claim refugee status"?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @02:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @02:16PM (#915029)

    Would that be the order to "fuck off into the sea and swim to where you claim refugee status"?

    It would be the "get down to the shelter UNRWA put together or get in the UN / Red Cross convey parking next to your house". Well, it makes more sense when your own elected officials aren't holding you hostage as a meta shield to prevent you from evacuating:

    "Last night, we told Red Cross to evacuate civilians from UNRWA's shelter in Beit Hanoun btw 10am & 2pm. UNRWA & Red Cross got the message. Hamas prevented civilians from evacuating the area during the window that we gave them."

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/israeli-strike-un-school-gaza-kills-women-children [theguardian.com]

    And no it wasn't a singular incident. Almost every single civilian casualty in Gaza was following hours notice. But hey, why bother reading past that headline and photographs, right? Not like the details make a difference or anything...