Spam cannon
A spam cannon is a device used to attack a message board, rendering it anywhere from difficult to clean up to impossible to use. The cannon, developed by the Republic of Blackrock was actually a website-based program that used three EzBoard logins to systemically create new threads on a forum of choice at an alarming speed. The idea is that the cannon would post hundreds or thousands of new threads in a short amount of time, causing old posts to be lost in the clutter or even deleted entirely due to EzBoard's limitations on maximum topics.
The Spam Cannon was used in micronational warfare in the Apollo Sector several times. Blackrock used it on the Great Automatic People's Republic during hostilities. John Sager and Thomas Hubert used a spam cannon to destroy most of the records of the Union of Apollo States. John also used the weapon on the archives of the Flying Islands of Jasonia but had a change of heart and stopped the attack before anything was deleted. Gryphon Avocatio claimed to have on during a Yardistani uprising in Tymaria, although he never actually used one. The terrorist group Anarchy21 used a similar weapon on Shireroth during the Battle of Chimmera. No Shirerothian data was lost in the attack. Antica (The Dinarchy) used a similar weapon against Avalonia in the early days of that nation's short life, but destroyed much more than just Avalonia's records, that forum having been used for The Republic of Lavalon and other purposes before that. The Avalonian example may be the only example of such a weapon being used against a nation that ISN'T using ezBoard.
Mostly a weapon from the old Apollo era, the old Blackrock program is long gone and the threat and usage of spam cannons have become less of a problem due to EzBoard's security changes, most notably those that prevented making a certain number of posts to a board from a certain Internet Protocol address in a certain amount of time.
See Also: Smiley Bomb
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