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This Is The Tool Anonymous Is Tricking The Internet Into Using

Gawker’s uncovered a pretty devious plan of Anonymous to wage war in its Megaupload retaliation — tricking Twitter users into firing the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. But what the hell is that? Giz explains.


December 10, 2010
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Dutch 4Chan Teen Arrested For WikiLeaks Revenge Attacks

A Dutch 16-year-old (and LOIC gunner) has been detained in the Netherlands for his connection to the pro-WikiLeaks takedowns of MasterCard, Visa and PayPal. The teen is currently undergoing interrogation by the Dutch High Tech Crime Team.


December 9, 2010
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What Is LOIC?

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.