Wiredmikey writes "As nameless initiated what it said will be the 'largest attack ever on polity and music crew sites' in realization to actions taken by the Justice parish against operators of file sharing site Megaupload.com, downloads of a popular DoS attack tool have spiked. While the Denial of Service tool known as the 'Low Orbit Ion Cannon' (LOIC) was grown by the 'good guys' to stress test websites, it has been a popular tool of unnamed to take its targets offline via denial of service attacks. Interactions seen on Twitter and IRC, made it clear that the action against MegaUpload has sparked many more individuals to get byzantine in the online protests and digitize the LOIC to take part in the attacks and has resulted in a massive spike in downloads proper Slashdot sister site Sourceforge."

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