As of this moment, you cannot openA denial of service attack has occurred apparently putting the website down.If it does open, it seems to open very slowly.It's apparently happened because the scientologists pulled the new Tom Cruise video from the internet._________________I fart in your general direction!
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:09 amPost subject:Denial of service attack on scientology.org
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I cant get the link to load torunningI get a server error.I dont need to read something that is just plain dumb.Doing what the cult does isnt the solution.Supression like this is just plain wrong_________________
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Denial of service attack.. yarr.. the pirates be on the move... _________________ We pillage, plunder, we rifle and loot, drink up me 'arties, Yo Ho, We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot, drink up me 'arties, Yo Ho, Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me.
It's opening up fairly fast now._________________
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 1:39 amPost subject:Re: Denial of service attack on scientology.org
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At this point the attack has probably ended. _________________ I fart in your general direction!
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The pirates have already struck.Find the Tom Cruise video clip underYar me matey's._________________I fart in your general direction!
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''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.