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Notepad++ Inundated by Chinese Comments and Hit by DDoS Attack After "Free Uyghur Edition"

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

takyon writes:

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, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @05:26AM (#914475)

    If they are being bombed by white phosphorus, they get to go visit God. As martyrs they get 72 virgins (no idea if the virgins consent, but they are probably nasty ones anyway) and all their wives.

    Re-education camps involve eating pork. If they touch pork at the moment of death, for example by choking, they go directly to Hell. LOL. It serves them right.

    It's all a funny situation anyway, given that both sides are a pox upon Earth. If somehow they could both lose, that would be great.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by inertnet on Friday November 01 2019, @08:56AM (1 child)

    by inertnet (4071) on Friday November 01 2019, @08:56AM (#914509) Journal

    As martyrs they get 72 virgins

    Maybe one should reconsider ones religion, if its heaven contains over 98% slaves (because only one out of every 73 inhabitants is not a slave). Sounds more like hell to me.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @12:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @12:53PM (#914542)

      Ask yourself why they are virgins.