ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Great Cannon

Okay kiddo, imagine you have a toy cannon that shoots out little toy balls. Now, imagine there is a bigger cannon that shoots out really big balls - that's kind of like the Great Cannon!

But instead of shooting out balls, the Great Cannon is actually a computer program that can take control of other computers and make them do things, like sending lots of traffic to a certain website. This is called a distributed denial of service attack, and it can make a website go offline because it's getting too much traffic at one time.

So basically, the Great Cannon is a tool that can be used to attack websites and make them break. It's not a nice thing to do, so we need to be careful when we use things like the internet and make sure we always stay safe and use it responsibly.