• merde alorsM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 hours ago

    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.

    • sbv
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 hours ago

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

    • CheradenineOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      8 hours ago

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