What is a Packet Monkey?
A packet monkey is a derogatory term for a person who floods a website with data packets, creating a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. In such an attack the Web server slows or even crashes, becoming unavailable for regular business. While a DoS attack might sound difficult and even sophisticated to the casual computer user, a packet monkey uses software scripts written by others and has no real personal experience or understanding of hacking. Packet monkeys along with script kiddies are considered childish wanna-bes in the hacker community. The Internet uses a standardized communication protocol so that any network or personal computer that conforms to the protocol can partake of the global network. This protocol takes data and breaks it into many smaller parts called data packets. Sending small packets along various routes improves transfer speed. At the destination address the data packets reunite to form the complete, original file. You can think of online data then as a jigsaw puzzl
