ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

High Orbit Ion Cannon

Hello! So, you know how sometimes when you play games or watch videos online, they become slow or won't load at all? That's because too many people are using the same website or service at the same time.

Now, imagine a lot of people trying to use a website or service at once, but they're doing it on purpose and they're not nice people. They want to make the website or service stop working for everyone. They can do this by bombarding it with a lot of requests all at once. This is called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

But don't worry, there's a way to fight back against these bad people. It's called a High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC). It's a type of software that can send many requests to the attacked website or service to help it defend against the DDoS attack.

Think of it like a superhero that stops the bad guys from breaking into the building. The HOIC uses a lot of computers to work together to send many requests at the same time. This makes it hard for the bad guys to keep their attack going because the website or service can handle all of the requests.

So, that's what a High Orbit Ion Cannon is. It's a tool that can protect websites and services from bad people trying to make them stop working.