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> Send SYN floods from all your controlled computers

Seems potentially useful for stress testing. Especially if you're trying to make your service more resistant to DDoS attacks.



This is about as credible as saying that the Michelangelo virus was really intended as a remote wipe tool for IT departments.


There's a long tradition there, wasn't BO2K non-ironically marketed as a system admin tool?


No, it was ironically marketed as a system administration tool, for exactly the subtextual reason as this story suggests one might.




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