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A comment on FBI arrests 16 in Anonymous hacking investigation.

Re:FBI arrests 16 in Anonymous hacking investigation by highpass on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @09:55PM (#2783971)
I thought ddos was usually via botnets/unaware infected users. The story states such people were willing participants?
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Re:FBI arrests 16 in Anonymous hacking investigation by m0nastic on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:25PM (#2784039)
DDOS is indeed normally conducted by botnets; however, Anonymous uses a tool called LOIC‡ to carry out DDOS attacks.

Unlike a normal DDOS attack, people actively coordinate the attack (ie: it's not automated), and apparently, do so from their own systems.

I suspect a lot of the people who participate either aren't aware of the technical particulars, figure they'll be masked by large amounts of traffic, or just don't care.

‡ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOIC

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