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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.