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		fintechie on July 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies ... > GATEWAY - Ability to artificially increase traffic to a website What is commonly called a DoS tool

TomGullen on July 18, 2014 [–]

They have one specifically for that:

> ROLLING THUNDER Distributed DoS attack using P2P. Built by ICTR deployed by JTRIG

Increase in traffic is probably to make propaganda look more popular than it is, or to redirect peoples attention.

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