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utnick on Oct 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Github.com unavailable due to a large DDoS attack

Is it feasable to firewall whitelist any IP that has ever pushed to a repo?

jcfiala on Oct 3, 2013 | [–]

You could, but now you're just forcing the attackers to fork an existing project and push some nonsense code to it before they can attack.

astrodust on Oct 3, 2013 | [–]

Why would you want to cut off all people that use only the web front-end?

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