Oh man I forgot about LOIC haha. Did that actually do anything?
IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn't conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn't know what they were doing as cannon fodder
Yep, that's exactly what it did. Maybe there was a way to do it, say if you had a VPN, but people picked up pretty quick to ban a single IP.
lol your VPN company is going to kick you the instant you turn on LOIC through them. Your packets wont even get to the target site because you are basically attacking your own VPN.
Ah, I always assumed it didn't actually do anything. That would be a very 4chan thing to say; "download this widget to totally pwn the man" and it doesn't even do anything haha.
Oh man I forgot about LOIC haha. Did that actually do anything?
IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn't conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn't know what they were doing as cannon fodder
Yep, that's exactly what it did. Maybe there was a way to do it, say if you had a VPN, but people picked up pretty quick to ban a single IP.
lol your VPN company is going to kick you the instant you turn on LOIC through them. Your packets wont even get to the target site because you are basically attacking your own VPN.
Ah, I always assumed it didn't actually do anything. That would be a very 4chan thing to say; "download this widget to totally pwn the man" and it doesn't even do anything haha.
It pioneered DDoS attacks so, uh, yeah