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Message: <blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1389842" data-attributes="member: 6406">The thing that lets this happen is the low barrier to entry in terms of commitment and skill for this kind of stuff.You barely even need to know how to use a computer. There are Firefox extensions that will repeatedly refresh a page that can be set to do it really fast. For the Scientology job, they just posted a link to a web server performance auditing suite with instructions on how to generate a lot of traffic. All you need is one sort-of tech savvy guy to write the instructions, and anyone can follow them in 5 minutes to set their box up as another node in the DDoS.Meanwhile, organizing massive numbers of people is trivial thanks to Internet message boards, Twitter, etc. Until those, the only organizations with the kind of infrastructure to reach millions of people this quickly were governments and news networks.Not to mention that you don't even need to get most of these people to care about whatever hacktivist cause you're pushing. They just need to believe that there will be lulz.</blockquote>