What a neat way to have script kiddies joining the people revolution. It's so easy, you don't even have the time to think about consequences any more.
It was reported that LOIC was used in Dec 2010 to attack the websites of companies and organizations that were openly opposing WikiLeaks. More than 30,000 download of the tools were reported to have occurred between 8 - 10 Dec 2010, and may have been routed through anonymization network such as Tor to remove traces. The success of the DoS attacks relies on an opt-in botnet within LOIC software, which volunteers the user's personal computer to be tethered to a single command server to launch the targeted attacks.
LOIC can be simply downloaded from SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/.
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