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The attack is still going on. Details at https://status.github.com/messages They describe what they're doing to mitigate it.

The latest message is

0:09 UTC

Hour 118: Mitigation remains effective and service is stable.

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Yes but they don't explain what the mitigation is.

During an ongoing attack? I wonder why not...

Right. Not looking for specifics. My curiosity would be satisfied by something like "we've reached out to Baidu and they've done X and Y. Meanwhile, traffic has decreased so we've unblocked the affected repos."

Just a bit more transparency on the situation.

They might release a post-mortem once it's over, but I wouldn't expect any transparency during the attack itself.

It's not baidu.com that serves that malicious code, it gets inserted on its way through the Great Fire Wall.

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