[quote]What Is LOIC?
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LOIC ("Low Orbit Ion Cannon") is an application developed by 4Chan-affiliated hackers designed to—when used en masse by thousands of anonymous users—launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on websites. Like Visa.com and Mastercard.com, for instance.
It's a pushbutton application...
The idea behind LOIC is that it can allow you to participate in attacks even if you've no clue how to hack. Just download a copy of LOIC (available for Windows, Mac, and Linux!), punch in the target information like a URL or an IP address and zap.
...that can be controlled by a central user...
The Windows version of LOIC has a "Hivemind" feature that lets you point your copy at an Internet Relay Chat server, allowing someone else—say, the Anon Admins behind Operation Payback, the campaign that is currently striking out against Visa, Mastercard, and other financial organizations in retaliation for their decision to stop doing business with Wikileaks—to control at what site all connected LOIC clients are aimed. And because it takes thousands of LOICs all pointed at a single site to make a real impact, letting a central administrator press the big button of website destruction makes the whole network more effective.
Giving hackers control of your computer by choice? Sounds dangerous. But because the LOIC client is open source, the chances that a virus or backdoor into a user's own system could be a hidden payload is minimal.
...to launch a flood of killer internet packets...
LOIC basically turns your computer's network connection into a firehose of garbage requests, directed towards a target web server. On its own, one computer rarely generates enough TCP, UDP, or HTTP requests at once to overwhelm a web server—garbage requests can easily ignored while legit requests for web pages are responded to as normal.
But when thousands of users run LOIC at once, the wave of requests become overwhelming, often shutting a web server (or one of its connected machines, like a database server) down completely, or preventing legitimate requests from being answered.
...with little risk to the user.
Because a DDoS knocks everything offline—at least when it works as intended—the log files that would normally record each incoming connection typically just don't work. And even if they do, many LOIC users claim that another user was on their network or that their machine was part of a bot net—a DDoS client delivered by virus that performs like a hivemind LOIC, minus the computer owner actually knowing they are participating.
Send an email to Joel Johnson, the author of this post, at [email]joel@gizmodo.com[/email].[/quote]
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This is incredibly late
Ask me if I give a shit.
[editline]8th December 2010[/editline]
Please.
(Hint: [B]NO[/B].)
Does this even need to be here?
We already know what LOIC is, and why isn't there a source?
heil to the webs
[QUOTE=tomoom165;26574839]Ask me if I give a shit.
[editline]8th December 2010[/editline]
Please.[/QUOTE]
Do you give a shit?
Source.
[QUOTE=Kiwi Bird;26574847]We already know what LOIC is, and why isn't there a source?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://gizmodo.com/5709630/what-is-loic[/url]
ducky what are you doing
Not news.
You gotta admit, they chose a fairly good name for the program.
Was expecting a machine in which to wipe out the polar bears.
No, its a useless piece of garbage for children to bring down websites.
How come somebody who quoted me is agree'd with yet I'm dumb for having the idea. I guess the Assange fans think I give 2 shits about some little pictures in my post.
I wonder if this was ever used against the Chans.
Thanks, this was really informative.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;26575284]No, its a useless piece of garbage for children to bring down websites.[/QUOTE]
Voluntary Botnet
Why is it everyone with an Android avatar (ducky,faze) posting quality has dropped tenfold?
Everyone on this site has known what the LOIC was for years.
[QUOTE=Glaber;26575318]I wonder if this was ever used against the Chans.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure 4chan was brought down with this more than once. It's just that moot is a badass and don't give a fuck. It usually happens when shit really heats up, like the Boxxy event.
i'll just leave this for the op
[url]http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html[/url]
Well I didn't really knew what LOIC was, so it was informative to me. :colbert:
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26576477]i'll just leave this for the op
[url]http://pastehtml.com/view/1c8i33u.html[/url][/QUOTE]
What the shit is that
Finally! we can now get are transport ships out of the system with the ion cannon, the star destroyers will be disabled long enough so we can hyper jump.
Sir! Rebel ships are entering our sector!
[QUOTE=TH89;26577828]Sir! Rebel ships are entering our sector![/QUOTE]
Ima just say
ABONDON SHIP now
I think the ion cannon injected memes into your sensors.
[QUOTE=ineedateam1;26577879]Ima just say
ABONDON SHIP now[/QUOTE]
I'm about 90% sure that you are either dyslexic, or mildly retarded.
[QUOTE=not_Morph53;26577962]I'm about 90% sure that you are either dyslexic, or mildly retarded.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=SwissArmyKnife;26575912]Why is it everyone with an Android avatar (ducky,faze) posting quality has dropped tenfold?[/QUOTE]
According to Gizmodo this was posted at 5 o'clock something. Must have not seen it else where. I ussauly dont post much any more.
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