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The Great Cannon is basically a proprietary WebLOIC, which of course means Web-based Low Orbit Ion Cannon. You may have heard of LOIC; a DDoS tool being used by
by sarciszewski 12y ago
The Great Cannon is basically a proprietary WebLOIC, which of course means Web-based Low Orbit Ion Cannon. You may have heard of LOIC; a DDoS tool being used by script kiddies and activists for the past 4 or so years.
"Powerful New Weapon"? Pure clickbait.
Playing catch-up with Anonymous is neither new nor powerful.
- TorKlingberg 12y agoThe new part is MitM:ing a popular site to use unsuspecting peoples computers in the attack.
- sarciszewski 12y agoWatering hole attacks and MitM aren't really new either. I know people who used hacked sites to drop slowloris.js payloads to coordinate "Anonymous-related" attacks. (Not really Anonymous related; quotes are sarcasm.)
- fweespeech 12y agoYeah, the only new part is the scale it operates on since it can MitM any site in an entire country and use legal means to guarantee its access.
- sarciszewski 12y agoYep. Using legal means to maintain a privileged position to do malicious things to the rest of the Internet is an innovation that few can enact.