Editing Botnet (section)

===Others===
In some cases, a botnet may be temporarily created by volunteer [[Hacktivism|hacktivist]]s, such as with implementations of the [[Low Orbit Ion Cannon]] as used by [[4chan]] members during [[Project Chanology]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |last=Norton |first=Quinn |url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/anonymous-101-part-deux/3/ |title=Anonymous 101 Part Deux: Morals Triumph Over Lulz |publisher=Wired.com |date=2012-01-01 |access-date=2013-11-22 |archive-date=2 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202151950/http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/anonymous-101-part-deux/3/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

China's [[Great Cannon|Great Cannon of China]] allows the modification of legitimate web browsing traffic at [[internet backbone]]s into China to create a large ephemeral botnet to attack large targets such as [[GitHub]] in 2015.<ref name="WSP-China-Deploys-New-Weapon-Online-Censorship-Great-Cannon">{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/04/10/china-escalates-censorship-efforts-with-debut-of-offensive-cyber-weapon-researchers-say/ | title=China deploys new weapon for online censorship in form of 'Great Cannon' | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=10 April 2015 | access-date=10 April 2015 | author=Peterson, Andrea | archive-date=17 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417191136/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/04/10/china-escalates-censorship-efforts-with-debut-of-offensive-cyber-weapon-researchers-say/ | url-status=live }}</ref>