• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    3 months ago

    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

    • ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        3 months ago

        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.