It's surprising how much publicity this is getting without making any arrests. I would've thought they'd have arrested people before publishing anything. I wonder if they've been able to identify the people, or if they were just able to undo the technical maliciousness?
If it's like the last half a dozen botnets that the FBI has taken down, it's being managed from China or Russia, and thus their chances of arresting anyone are close to nil.
The GFW is mostly a protectionist racket. By degrading the services of Western companies, the GFW gave their Chinese counterparts an opportunity to catch up to them, despite starting later (e.g. Google leaves China, creates opportunity for Baidu, etc.).
It's also an important censorship apparatus, but that just needs to be "good enough," and is more dependent on domestic companies (the same who benefited from the degradation of Western services) following regulations to remove content on their websites.
