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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

LOIC performs a DoS attack (or, when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the server with TCP, UDP, or HTTP packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary botnets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

When you want to mess stuff up, but you don't care what.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't that a last from the past.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Randomly popped into my head today after reading about the Twitter outage.