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You come up with a dynamite app. Companies are thrilled with it. Next thing you know, your app is used to deny visitors access to a website.
Repurposed software
To pull off these obviously successful DoS attacks, Anonymous used a software package called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC). LOIC was originally created to stress-test networks. But once LOIC became part of the public domain, Anonymous and others adapted it for DoS attacks.
Another famous/infamous — depending on your point of view — repurposed software application is DVD Decrypter. It was originally developed to create back-up images of DVDs. It did not take long to figure out DVD Decrypter also did a great job decrypting copy-protected movies.
There are other examples, but you get the point.
