Well, it looks like the war is on. The Church of Scientology’s attempts to squash circulation of a video of Tom Cruise last week seem to have been the final straw for a group that calls itself “Anonymous.” According to a recent report in Wired, the cryptically-named organization recently stated that its main goal is to destroy the leadership of the Church of Scientology.The first public salvo was launched over the past couple of days as a group of hackers claiming affiliation with Anonymous took down the home page of the Church with repeated distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. DDOS attacks flood target servers with requests, so that they become overwhelmed with data and shut down. This results in a site that doesn’t work, which is exactly what visitors to the Scienology Web site experienced during the attack. The attacks flooded Scientology’s Web servers with as much as 220 megabits per-second, which security experts claim is a mid-sized attack. While this attack is not the largest of its kind ever seen, it does show some level of organization, “It’s not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this,” said Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks. The church has since moved its site to servers run by Prolexic Technologies, a company that specialized in protection from DDOS attacks.
OK I know I’m not commenting much. Part of that is because I’m busy, and part is that sometimes, the comments write themselves!
Horus,
“Offends” is not the right word to use. “Disappoints” would be more appropriate. I was trying to explain to you the importance of clear communication (let’s ignore that this is one of the core doctrines of Scientology).
If you want to use your interweb speak, I don’t care. I grok it. But you have to accept that people outside of that community will not take you seriously. If you don’t want to be taken seriously, then please continue.
Calling them “scifags” is really not helping the case. Homophobia (or even the impression of it) is not going to win you any friends.
All you did was give 10,000 people a reason to check out their website to see if it was down. How many of them stayed to read their self-help nonsense?
Even then, you use the word “we” but you don’t actually know the people involved. Why do you disregard the idea that the CoS is really the one pulling the strings here? Public sympathy (even if undeserved) is an excellent thing to have on your side.
Glad to hear you’re not a theist.
And yes, we get lots of theists here spouting nonsense. I took you for one of them since I had never seen your username here before.
Theists aren’t scared of our presence, they are scared of our logic. I think we get a new troll twice a month here, they never stay long since they are never prepared for logical arguments.
Agreed. If there were more than 100,000 of them I might be worried about it.
Dawnisis,
Wanna know more about the crap of scientology?
http://www.xenu.net/
Thx for the link 666 I will give it a thorough going through. I’ve heard so much about them it seems so hard to believe they get any members.
These people arent just conning, they are brainwashing people. They encourage members to cut contact with friends and family who disapprove of the cult. They expect you to work for practically nothing. Lisa McPherson died of dehydration. The Sci. church even harassed the conductors of the autopsy. Ron H. is known to have said that the easiest way of getting rich is to start a religon. With most mainstream religons, the dogma has developed over centuries. New age beliefs are generally vague or extensions of old myths and they develop from a wide variety of sources. Scientology however, is based on the ‘teachings’ of one man. There isnt any kind of framework that ron used, he created every last bit of it in his psychopathic head.
These people arent just conning, they are brainwashing people. They encourage members to cut contact with friends and family who disapprove of the cult. They expect you to work for practically nothing. Lisa McPherson died of dehydration. The Sci. church even harassed the conductors of the autopsy. Ron H. is known to have said that the easiest way of getting rich is to start a religon. With most mainstream religons, the dogma has developed over centuries. New age beliefs are generally vague or extensions of old myths and they develop from a wide variety of sources. Scientology however, is based on the ‘teachings’ of one man. There isnt any kind of framework that ron used, he created every last bit of it in his psychopathic head.
Oopsy, sorry about the duplicate post. As I was saying…
The fair game policy explicitly sanctions ruining any defecting sciologists financially, socially and even physically. They permit physical attacks! They locked up Lisa when she was unstable, put her on a liquid diet, gave sedatives without a prescription (and they are supposedly against the use of medications that affect the mind – thats what tom said about brooke shields, right?) and did not inform her family.
Dawn,
Since you find it hard to believe Lisa was dehydrated, look at the autopsy pictures. Her body is horribly bruised and she had been REPEATEDLY BITTEN BY INSECTS (COCKROACHES) ALL OVER HER BODY. These pictures are horrible so dont see them if youre squeamish- http://whyaretheydead.net/lisa_mcpherson/autopsy/autopsy_03/index.html
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/lisapics.htm
Anonymous gets my thumbs up.