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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">Syn Floods 21

Metasploit

Little Computer People - Computer Game

[[Old Music]]

Loic - used a web-based tool called Loic to bombard target sites with data</rev>
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          <rev contentformat="text/x-wiki" contentmodel="wikitext" xml:space="preserve">== Cosmic Spacehead ==
[http://static.jjgames.com/images/12917.JPG Cover]]

'''Cosmic Spacehead Description'''

Cosmic Spacehead is a Cosmonaut with a problem nobody on his home planet believes his claims of a newly discovered planet that he calls Earth. Now, it's up to you to help Cosmic get back to this distant world and take some pictures to prove to everyone that the Earth is for real. You'll have to deal with a variety of friends and foes as you try to return to Earth: Nutter the Headcase, Flopters, Gonkers, the Bangers, One-Eye, and Ditto the Splatdrone. If you're able to get a few snapshots of this new planet, Cosmic will be revered as a hero on his home planet but if you fail, who knows what his fate will be?</rev>
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