A message to the Church of Scientology

[Stylesjl]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ

And

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_website_being_attacked_by_hackers

The Church of Scientology is under attack from a massive number of script kiddies employing a distributed Denial of Service Attack on Scientology websites all around the world. That Youtube video explains why they are doing it and what they will try to do.

(Apologies in advance if somebody else reported this news in another thread I didn't notice)

 

[Elrohir]

This is....actually kinda neat. Press release.

Anonymous' members cited several reasons for their actions against the Church of Scientology: many have stressed the alleged human rights violations under the auspices of the Church.[1] Others accused the Church of fraud due to its costly ceremonies, while some merely sought the entertainment they refer to as "lulz," a corruption of the Internet slang "LOL," or "laugh out loud."

That's great.

 

[DNK]

+1 Go *****

 

[Kraznaya]

We Are Legion

 

[cubsfan6506]

Could somthing like this be used on religionofpeace.com

 

[nivi]

Epic lulz indeed.

 

[Tasslehoff]

Ooh, I saw this.

Just found this, supposedly this might have been a cause of it:
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress

 

[Simple Simon]

All your scientology base are belong to us!

 

[Stylesjl]

Ooh, I saw this.

Just found this, supposedly this might have been a cause of it:
http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress

That's what provoked the attack. The straw that broke the camels back.

Also, I've been to Chanology (you need to google it as direct links won't work), it's a fascinating read. They've got everything, real life protests, prank calls, more internet attacks, even a plan to clog up Scientology toilets with Yeast. They are really going all out, and the best part is that few are likely to be caught and arrested because of the sheer numbers involved. Well maybe except the real life attacks, those are pretty risky

 

[Leifmk]

Never thought I'd see a situation where Anonymous were the good guys.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Good that the hackers attack them instead of completely innocent orginisations.

 

[bhsup]

I cannot believe everyone supports this. Yes, Scientology is probably one of the more idiotic and potentially dangerous movements around, but these little losers are still shutting down a legal entity's internet activity.

To compare it to a physical real world crime, it's more or less like breaking into a home and tying someone up against their will, preventing them from going anywhere or doing anything. It's things like THAT which I have a gun for, btw.

 

[emzie]

I cannot believe everyone supports this. Yes, Scientology is probably one of the more idiotic and potentially dangerous movements around, but these little losers are still shutting down a legal entity's internet activity.

While the law agrees with you, morally I don't see this being much different than Scientology's strong-handed tactics for protesters.

When there's no legal action to stop someone, they intimidate... like taking pictures of protesters, finding out who they are, and staging protests outside their home, work ect.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I actually tend to agree with VRWC; however dangerous the organization represented by the Church of Scientology may be, that doesn't make it right to do something like this.

 

[emzie]

I actually tend to agree; however dangerous the organization represented by the Church of Scientology may be, that doesn't make it right to do something like this.

No, it's not right. That doesn't mean I care. If I were on a jury prosecuting one of the kids, I wouldn't convict.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I would, on the grounds that as a juror my job would be to determine if the law had been broken, regardless of motive.

 

[IglooDame]

I cannot believe everyone supports this. Yes, Scientology is probably one of the more idiotic and potentially dangerous movements around, but these little losers are still shutting down a legal entity's internet activity.

To compare it to a physical real world crime, it's more or less like breaking into a home and tying someone up against their will, preventing them from going anywhere or doing anything. It's things like THAT which I have a gun for, btw.

As opposed to the Church of Scientology using their legal team to prevent a leader's antics from showing up on video on the internet? Two wrongs don't make a right, but one wrong left unpunished doesn't, either.

 

[bhsup]

I understand that, ID, but use a different "wrong" to respond. Post it on the usenet from a country that doesn't give a fig about Scientologists, for example.

 

[emzie]

I would, on the grounds that as a juror my job would be to determine if the law had been broken, regardless of motive.

I guess I make a bad law and order guy. I probably wouldn't be put on the jury for this reason

 

[classical_hero]

"Just say that you are prejudiced against all minorities."