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Low Orbit Ion Cannon - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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[โ€“] merde 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.

[โ€“] sbv 3 points 3 weeks ago

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