Anonymous vs. Scientology

[Ahkei]

A group of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” has hit the Church of Scientology’s Web site with an online attack. The attack was launched Jan. 19 by Anonymous, which is seeking media attention to help “save people from Scientology by reversing the brainwashing,” according to a Web page maintained by Anonymous (offline now). The attacks were spurred by the Church’s efforts to remove video of movie star Tom Cruise professing his admiration for the religion, according to an Anonymous video manifesto posted to Youtube. “For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form,” a creepy computerized voice states in the video. Anonymous followed up this dispatch with a second video blasting the media for failing to completely report the group’s criticisms of the church. This video was taken down Friday by Youtube, citing a “terms of use violation.”

Anonymous has managed to generate a measurable attack against the Scientology.org Web site. Over the past few days, the site was hit with several DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which flooded it with as much as 220 Mbps of traffic, according to Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks, whose company compiles data on Internet attacks. The Anonymous campaign shows some level of organization. “220 Mbps is probably about in the middle of attack sizes,” Nazario said. “It’s not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this.” On average, the attacks lasted about 30 minutes and used up 168 Mbps of bandwidth. In the past year, Arbor has seen attacks on other sites hit 40 Gbps, or 200 times the strength of the Anonymous event.

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Pulled from rlslog.

I like how they're still being called a a group of hackers known as Anonymous.

I also laughed out loud at this: Nazario said. “It’s not just one or two guys hanging out in the university dorms doing this."

[Anonymous]

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Rules one and two of the internet.

[Anonymous]

Another release from Anonymous:

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

Anonymous goes back to the "terrorists" that filled the Boston harbor with tea; the negros that refused to be seated in the back of the bus. We are the worthless that stormed the Bastille, and then decapitated an empress; and the separatists that brought down the iron curtain. But this time, our revolution will not be betrayed. We will bow to no leader, we bow only to ourselves.

The anonymous masses have always been vilified by those that have everything to lose. Anonymous has everything to gain. Will we be the generation of apathy? No. We must take our world back.

We are forged from the secret rage and tempered with the will of a people oppressed. A work in progress like our brothers and sisters behind the great wall, and those at home who fight those who wish to demolish our rights.

Today the enemy is The Church of Scientology. They wish to suppress, dominate, oppress, terrorize and control. They have poisoned the most weak and then sold the same poison as a cure.

To clear the planet is to destroy Anonymous, to destroy the disbelievers, to destroy their own followers. And to destroy You.

Now is the winter of our discontent. The church has always fought the few, the divided. Anonymous are the many. We are one hundred thousand strong. We can be a million strong, but only with you.

On February 10th, at the 12th hour of the day, Anonymous will assemble around all the Churches of Scientology in the world and demand that they be demolished, that their prisoners be released, that they cease to torture, brainwash and terrorize their followers and those who know the truth.

Join us, and take a stand for the freedom of knowledge, the freedom of faith, the freedom of our world. We cannot forgive what they have done. We cannot forget Lisa McPherson. We are a hundred thousand legion. Expect us, on February 10th 2008.

[Huey Kruthas]

well its kinda obvious who they are now..clearly the decepticons are behind this.

[Chibi-Suke]

I don't know if anyone already knew this, but anonymous isn't new. They were terrorizing myspacers before deciding to do something worthwhile with their time.

Originally Posted on wikipedia
On July 26, 2007, KTTV Fox 11 News based in Los Angeles, California aired a report on "Anonymous", calling them a group of "hackers on steroids" and "domestic terrorists". The report covered an attack on a MySpace user, who claimed to have had his MySpace account hacked into by "Anonymous", and plastered with gay pornography images uploaded by the hackers. The MySpace user also claimed a virus written by "Anonymous" hackers was sent to him and to ninety friends on his MySpace contact list, crashing thirty-two of his friends' computers. The report also featured an anonymous former "hacker" who had fallen out with "Anonymous" and explained his view of "Anonymous" culture

That's just wrong... (where'd they get the gay porn in the first place?)
I could see this,
Hacker 1:how should we mess with his myspace?
Hacker 2: let's put some gay porn all over it.
Hacker 1: Where are we going to get gay porn?
Hacker 2: I've got some on my computer.
Hacker 1:

\b\ is a forum... stupid me.

Anyone know why anonymous attacked his myspace? If he was a jerk, that's fine. Fox always misconstrues things anyway.

I can't believe I had to go to my arch-nemesis (FOX News) for info... arggh! I would go to 4chan itself, but the dang forums are so confusing. It's like all the chaotic energy in the world balled up into one site! No wonder Anonymous uses this place, it's so dang confusing to find anything.

[Elmdor Rizer]

Err.. we all, more or less, know all about 4chan/anonymous/those damn pictures people keep posting. Like a picture is ever funny in itself, (of course it is, but your shoddy memes aren't) fucking hell, what's wrong with the damn world? LOL AN HERO, I will ban you.

...ahem. Yeah. I also wouldn't call them hackers, but yeah.

[Cosmic]

Thread cleaned and re-opened. Let's try to get back on topic here.

[[toj.cc]Phantom]

[Anonymous]

Yup. Massive RL raids planned for the 10th. Picketing the outside of the Co$ buildings, blackfaxes, computer shutdowns, etc.

[Elmdor Rizer]

Does that never forgive, never forget thing actually make some kind of sense, or did Davy Crockett die again?

/Feels that he's close to reveal how little he knows about the battle of Alamo and leaves.

[Anonymous]

Has nothing to do with the Alamo.

[Paladin_Hammer]

Wait a minute. So this is all about some supposed irregular activites the church of scientology has been accused of? Basically, anonymous is angry because the c.o.s. has at times committed crimes? May I ask, WHAT ORGANIZATION HASN'T? Hell, the US Government (or any government for that matter), and even scientist have ran scams. People use any means necessary to further their own agenda, they don't care how, they'll use any means.

So basically these fucktards who can't even name themselves are angry, and are committing clearly illegal activites, to attack a church for its wrongs? So how does this make them better? One group commits a crime, so another group comes along and commits a crime against the prior? Two wrong make a right? What?

This is seriously fucked up. All you guys saying "we won't take it from scientology", what the fuck did scientology do to you if you've never been in it? Sounds like a bunch of fucktards being fucktards.

EDIT: Just wondering, is "Anonymous" the new word for the anti-scientology religion? And when can we expect someone to hack said new religion for its misgivings? Tommorrow?

But 4chan has yet to kill anybody.

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Yet.



Plus it's a free cult that doesn't go out of its way to step on everyone's toes or censor people. Just a couple of people. Online. Most of whom had it coming.

When the hell did scientology kill somebody?

[Banned]

Wait a minute. So this is all about some supposed irregular activites the church of scientology has been accused of? Basically, anonymous is angry because the c.o.s. has at times committed crimes? May I ask, WHAT ORGANIZATION HASN'T? Hell, the US Government (or any government for that matter), and even scientist have ran scams. People use any means necessary to further their own agenda, they don't care how, they'll use any means.

So basically these fucktards who can't even name themselves are angry, and are committing clearly illegal activites, to attack a church for its wrongs? So how does this make them better? One group commits a crime, so another group comes along and commits a crime against the prior? Two wrong make a right? What?

This is seriously fucked up. All you guys saying "we won't take it from scientology", what the fuck did scientology do to you if you've never been in it? Sounds like a bunch of fucktards being fucktards.

Typical Paladin_Hammer post... :eyeball:

[Paladin_Hammer]

Typical Paladin_Hammer post... :eyeball:

Typical that all reason would leave the citizens of the interwebs once I take a nap.

[Elmdor Rizer]

Wait a minute. So this is all about some supposed irregular activites the church of scientology has been accused of? Basically, anonymous is angry because the c.o.s. has at times committed crimes? May I ask, WHAT ORGANIZATION HASN'T? Hell, the US Government (or any government for that matter), and even scientist have ran scams. People use any means necessary to further their own agenda, they don't care how, they'll use any means.

So basically these fucktards who can't even name themselves are angry, and are committing clearly illegal activites, to attack a church for its wrongs? So how does this make them better? One group commits a crime, so another group comes along and commits a crime against the prior? Two wrong make a right? What?

This is seriously fucked up. All you guys saying "we won't take it from scientology", what the fuck did scientology do to you if you've never been in it? Sounds like a bunch of fucktards being fucktards.

EDIT: Just wondering, is "Anonymous" the new word for the anti-scientology religion? And when can we expect someone to hack said new religion for its misgivings? Tommorrow?

The same could be said about Greenpeace, just to throw an example out there. End, means, etc. I'm not arguing on the fucktards being fucktards part, but I don't really see your point either.

Oh, I didn't actually imply it had anything to do with the Alamo, but the tagline sounds ridiculous.