On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:19:32AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
LOIC makes no attempt to hide the IP addresses of the attackers, making it easy to trace them if they are using their own computers.
Perhaps the authors of the tool would rather keep the finite law enforcement busy rounding up clueless highschool kids who install this tool.
In that sense it's both a network packet DDOS, and a law enforcement attacker DDOS. Brilliant in a way.
Or maybe that's a feature, not a bug. False flag operations to ensnare the clueless have a long history of running code. Regards Marshall
-- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/