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> news:ca1cbafa-7281-40c1...@f10g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
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> > Forgive this new post, I don't know if you will find it relevant or
> > not but there is currently an attempt to remove Scientology from the
> > face of the internet by members of various websites. What is occurring
> > is people are planning to refresh the Scientology website many times
> > whilst also attempting to infiltrate it on a physical level.
>
> > Just thought I'd share.
>
> And you're not a Scientologist, right? Got any documentation of this or at
> least some memo from someone doing the cult's webmastering?
>
> I put forth that if someone in the hacking arena decided to do what
> Scientology has attempted to do on a variety of critical sites (It's called
> a Denial Of Service attack, btw), they certainly wouldn't do it by sitting
> there hitting Refresh/F5.
>
> How do you think one would "infiltrate it on a physical level"? Walking in
> the door, pretending to take a so-called 'personality test', and then sneak
> into some place where the servers are... See, that doesn't work either.
>
> Share THAT. And share THIS. The entire non-clam planet seems to be doing
>
> Rev. Norle Enturbulata
> "Church" of Cartoonism
> *
> * " You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way
> you can control anybody is to lie to them."
> * -- L. Ron Hubbard, "Technique 88"
> *
> * "...Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her
> crimes, known and unknown. And act completely confident that those crimes
> exist...."
> * L. Ron Hubbard, "Critics of Scientology", November 5, 1967
> *
> * "All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All
> mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!"
> - L. Ron Hubbard, "Personal Affirmations"
On Jan 18, 7:46 pm, "Rev. Norle Enturbulata, COD" hotmail.com > wrote:> < wheaths...@googlemail.com > wrote in message> so: http://gawker.com/345563/tom-cruise-uncut-the-freedom-medal-award-cer. ..
well what they are doing is technically legal and is the process of
leaching bandwidth by downloading the website thousands of times a
minute. This would have the affect of taking down the site as the
bandwidth is slowly leached away. Those videos and links that you have
posted are also being used and spread by people undertaking this
action. What is also taking place is the faxing of documents
containing the truths of Scientology to their centres, maybe they'll
be ignored but maybe they won't.
The sites have already been compromised already, again you don't need
to have access to the servers to do anything. Simple USB stick based
key loggers will suffice for the acquisition of data.
The people are taking a pro-active step, something that should be
encouraged and as for freedom, they are operating legally within the
confines of US and UK law. Much like the publicising the truth of
As for playing victim, I would say that it is certainly not the case.
They are being attacked and it isn't a scam on their half.
The Chanology link that was posted earlier will inform you of the
proposed plans. I can categorically say that I am not a scientologist
although of course I don't know how I can prove this. i suppose
iterating that L Ron Hubbard was an epic level douche bag won't
convince it does need to be said.
''Wikinews'' has learned that according to an Internet posting made just over 24 hours ago, the Church of Scientology's website is being attacked by hackers, causing the site to shut down.

The attack was launched on Wednesday by a user labelled "Anonymous", on the website "Insurgency Wiki", a spinoff of 4chan.  The "History" section of the site explains, in a satirical fashion, that the incident was prompted by the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove a promotional video featuring Scientologist Tom Cruise from YouTube.  Though YouTube is complying with the Church of Scientology's requests to take down the video, other sites such as Gawker.com have stated that they will keep hosting the video.  

Writing in a blog post, Matthew Ingram of ''The Globe and Mail'' dubbed the ongoing conflict involving the Church of Scientology's attempts to remove the Cruise video from the Internet: "Scientology vs. the Internet, part XVII".  He characterized the conflict between the Church of Scientology and anonymous posters of the Cruise video as "another small skirmish in a war that Scientology has been waging for almost 15 years, since the early days of newsgroups such as alt.religion.scientology, which posted internal church documents in 1994. Lawsuits have been filed, mailing lists have been shut down, homes of discussion group participants have been raided and their computers seized -- an all-out war."


One poster admitted to being a part of the effort, writing in a blog post "I have myself, as per instructions, loaded up Gigaloader and started bombarding the Scientology homepage. Theres ''sic'' something in the hilarious anarchy of the net that produces these 'events' every now and again."  The poster wrote that "Prompted I think by the Tom Cruise video, a new obsession is taking hold on the internet. An insurgency against The Church of Scientology."

"Someone emailed me earlier today talking about a tool a group’s been using to attack the scientology website. It’s an interesting tool, created to overload/create malformed strings and crash a website’s database," said the post by an unknown author on ''pigmy.''

The Church's website is currently unreachable. Some individuals reported that when they are able to reach the site, all they get is a message stating, ''"The word scientology means search for truth..."''. As of 15:11 GMT the site was accessible again, but only loads at relatively slow speeds, and by the end of the day Saturday the site was not loading at all. 

Posts on the message board for the Scientology-critic site Operation Clambake from Friday theorized that a denial-of-service attack had occurred, and wrote that as of Friday the Scientology.org site was either not loading at all, or loading very slowly.  Critics of Scientology at the Internet newsgroup alt.religion.scientology were critical of the attacks to the Church of Scientology website, with one poster writing "How can people look at both sides if one side is gone?"

Traffic to the Scientology website had already increased 18-fold prior to the attack, following increased attention after the Tom Cruise video appeared on the Internet.  At that time, one in three visits to the site came from ''BBC News'', and the website increased to number 3 in the company Hitwise UK's Lifestyle-Religion category.