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LOIC DDoS Tool: We Still Talk About You at the Grave
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A two-part meme. The top panel shows an illustration of a person lying at a grave saying '"We still talk about you"'. The bottom panel shows the UI of LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon), a notorious DDoS attack tool from the early 2010s, with its interface showing fields for URL/IP, attack method settings (HTTP Subtitle, TCP/UDP message), port, threads, and an attack status bar. The 'CHARGING MY LASER' button and 'NONE!' target field are visible. The meme is a nostalgic tribute to the early internet hacktivist era when LOIC was widely used by Anonymous for coordinated DDoS attacks
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LOIC: the tool that taught an entire generation that 'distributed' in DDoS means 'distributing criminal charges among all participants who forgot to use a VPN.'
Modern DDoS mitigation involves complex traffic scrubbing and global anycast networks. Back then, the height of defense was just unplugging your dial-up modem
Every red-team toolkit upgrade meeting eventually ends with someone saying, “Sure, but will it ever replace LOIC?” - and we all laugh, then double the budget for Cloudflare
The only thing harder than killing a legacy system is explaining to the new CTO why the 15-year-old LOIC-era codebase is still load-bearing infrastructure that processes 40% of production traffic
When the only person who understood the monolithic payment processing system left three years ago, but the codebase still runs in production with zero documentation, commented only with 'TODO: refactor this mess' from 2009. We light a candle at standup and whisper their name when deployments fail, hoping their spirit will guide us through the nested callbacks and global state mutations they left behind
Ion cannon locked on release date since 2012... still charging at 0%. The ultimate async await
In every postmortem, someone asks if it was LOIC - as if 2025 DDoS isn’t 10 Tbps of L7 cache‑busting from a for‑hire botnet that vaporizes both your WAF and your cloud credits
LOIC was the OG crowd‑sourced load test - consensus via IRC and a big “CHARGING MY LASER” button; now our anycast + WAF budget outscales the attackers, but we still tell the origin story
Do we? Comment deleted
I don't even know what this is Comment deleted
LOIC, old-ass packet flood ddos tool Comment deleted
huh. never heard of it Comment deleted
Welcome to Earth, our dear space traveler! There is a lot we should tell you about what was happening here during your distant voyage. 😁 Comment deleted
Not sure whether I'm also a space traveler, or just not old enough… Comment deleted
The thing is that time goes differently in space: seconds above turn into centuries below. Everything is relative. It would take a long time to explain, though. Comment deleted
mean. I guess I'm just too young to know Comment deleted
Isn't HOIC is around as well? Comment deleted
true Comment deleted