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Anonymous Has a New Weapon In Its Arsenal, Plans to Use It Tomorrow

by Eric Limer | 11:27 am, September 16th, 2011


Word on the street is that Anonymous has been testing out a new weapon that they intend on using tomorrow as a cyber component to a physical protest on Wall Street. The new weapon, called #RefRef, is intended to replace their current weapon, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC). Though designed to take down websites, #RefRef  is not merely an iteration on the LOIC but functions in an entirely new way.

Anonymous’ distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks generally employ botnets to flood the target servers with requests. While the past iterations on the LOIC have increased the number of requests in the flood, #RefRef executes a DDoS from the inside out. Instead of orchestrating an army of zombies to request the target server, #RefRef initiates a flood of processes on the target server itself. #Refref has reportedly been tested on a number of sites including Pastebin (see picture) and Wikileaks. According to Anonymous, #RefRef is to be released tomorrow in concert with physical protesters during #OccupyWallSt.

Ever since OpPayPal and OpBart, Anonymous has been dabbling in more traditional protesting practices. As such, the release of #Refref is only one part of #OccupyWallStreet which consists largely of citizens (Anonymous affiliated and not) swarming Wall Street and camping out until some characteristically unclear demands are met. While the exact demands may not be easy to pin down, the protocol for the physical protest has been planned in great detail after a test protest resulted in the arrest of nine individuals.

As always, there’s no telling how Anonymous’ attack will manifest itself or what effect it might actually have. It’s worth noting that Anonymous has had success attacking financial institutions in the past and that was just with traditional methods. We’ll have to wait and see how powerful #RefRef really is; I have a feeling Anonymous will be chomping at the bit to show us, repeatedly.

(via ITworld)

 

 

  • Anonymous

    When I read the headline, this ‘initiates a flood of processes on the target server itself’ is exactly what I thought they had created.

  • Anonymous

    How can smart asses be dumb in equal measure ? Are they trying to get Public service internet shut down completely ? Why can’t they get off their asses and protest like normal people ? Its a Zionist concocted movement .. I saw the Zionist movie V for vendetta ,,,

  • Anonymous

    question is r u smart? and the answer is NO .

  • http://www.facebook.com/thatninjaslicy Matt Bowie

    i hatez thoze gentlemenz… always making folks on the interweb complain and shit. sick of listening to it. people should just meet their demands.

  • Anonymous

    what the hell does zionism have to do with this? They are just teenagers doing what seems right in their mind. At least they are standing up for what they believe in. They are going about it the wrong way but it sure beats sitting around and waiting.

  • Take2000

    Yeh those damn zionists…i heard they are responsible for the extinction of the dinosaur and the hole in the ozone layer too!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OJJ4TXGKC7YMM6V4GKF56FTB5Q Victoria D

    Satan’s command is “Do what thou wilt.” God condemned Israel because every man did what was right in his own eyes.

  • Dasjas

    Maybe they should try jobs.

  • Ijnknj

    if satan punishes the bad people then doesnt that make him good?

  • Anon Secondary

    victoria D, that is not satans command, that is the law of thelema and if you read it properly you would see that after that it goes onto say more things that are relevant to the first phrase, i basically says do what you want as long as it doesnt harm others if it does then it shall “rebound” on you threefold. thelema is not just a good idea, its the law!!!
    Do what thou want shall be the whole of the law, love is the law, love under will… is just the start of it. 


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