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.
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When you want to mess stuff up, but you don't care what.
Isn't that a last from the past.
Randomly popped into my head today after reading about the Twitter outage.