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You don't really need parallel connections when you have a thousand or /b/tards all running the LOIC. That's sufficient to take down medium-sized web properties for short periods of time.

They certainly are script kiddies, but they're not as ignorant as you portray them either.

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It's the power of ignorant morons in vast numbers. Kind of like the idiots who loot, riot, and burn cars after sporting events. In both cases, the damage caused isn't a reflection of the power or intellect of those causing the damage. Just a reflection of their sheer numbers and lack of common decency.

LOIC is complete junk. It's just a crappy TCP/UDP/HTTP attack tool. They are only strong because of the sheer number of them.

A handful of people using a quality tool like Rsnake's "slowloris" (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/) could do much more damage.

Anyone remember smurf attacks? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack) now that was epic. LOIC is lame.

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