Lovinglife625
Patron with Honors
That was a heck of a video.
Sadly I cannot find anything in that video about organized scientology that I think is incorrect.
The following from Factnet about this I thought was interesting:
"New Hacker’s Video Vowed to dismantle Tom Cruise’s Cult (Scientology) in Cyber War. It has Begun, but What does it Mean? Latest Links Here!
Tom Cruise’s Scientology Cult has mercilessly waged a well documented all-out war on Internet free speech, internet critics and the democratized flow of information on the Net for years. It has also ruthlessly bullied and cowered Internet corporations and media into submission. It now appears that an extra-legal karmic Scientology pay-back may be delivered in the ironic form of the “Anonymous” Hackers group and other renegade cyber-warriors. Why? Simply because these individuals want to punish the Internet’s biggest bully and at the same time make “big-time” hacker names for themselves. There are many important Internet and social lessons that can be learned from what this raging new cyber war might mean to us all…
Some would say that Scientology has completely created this problem for itself by its own outrageous and abusive actions. Others readily admit that it is a problem that no person or business that uses a computer or the Internet would ever in a million years want to face.
Imagine the nightmare of continuous hacking attempts on Scientology’s websites, computers, cell phones and faxes by hordes of highly-motivated, world class hackers. Now imagine that because of the new hacker’s video Scientology will now have to also begin searching and watching every new person entering every one of its worldwide centers for cell phones or laptops. This is because the angry and infamously creative hackers will quickly look to access Scientology’s unguarded internal computers by appearing to be new members.
Because Scientology also runs a very nasty full-fledged intelligence agency with a budget rivaling that of many larger countries, hackers that bring down Scientology’s near intelligence agency secure websites and computer systems will not only be held in the highest awe by their hacker peers, but they will also come onto the radar screens of high paying recruiters for American and foreign intelligence agencies not to mention the many global corporations looking to recruit those very same intelligences and skills to protect their own secure systems. Every time Scientology is hacked it will certainly spend more of the hundreds of millions of dollars it has stolen from its brainwashed victims on better computer and web security systems paradoxically attracting even more skilled hackers and further increasing the successful hacker “big time” name status or hacker “merit badge” value of bringing down the newest Scientology website of computer system.
On an even deeper level relevant to the new cyber war era, every major world government with a cyber warfare division will be intently watching and using this real, cyber war as a training classroom for its own cyber attach, propaganda and counter cyber attack classes. Hacking Scientology’s computers and websites is likely to become not only the most famous initiation right that demonstrates you’re a skilled hacker, it might even become the unofficial minimum requirement for passing government cyber warrior training and for going on the payroll as a sanctioned cyber warfare hacker for the intelligence community.
What does this huge cyber war mean to the Internet? It appears to be an ongoing lesson that is still being written. There has never been a more public call and challenge to hackers all over the world like this before. There has never been more publicity on the skills and power of the hacker consortium ( in just a day there was over 1 million hits on the full length “Anonymous” Scientology hacker video just at Youtube.com alone.)
The Internet community and the world will without doubt be closely watching the Scientology websites and listening for reports of crashed systems. The Internet and world will also be watching to see if Scientology counter-attacks with its own covert hacking and counter propaganda ever harder (as is fully expected,) or if it surprises everyone and chooses a new de-escalating course.
Does Scientology deserve the Internet version of the Sisyphus punishment--- having your computers and websites continually infected and dismantled for all of the Internet’s eternity? (Sisyphus was a mythical king punished by the Gods. His punishment was to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll down again, and repeat this frustrating action throughout eternity.)
Hundreds of millions of Internet users and many internet companies probably believe in private that Scientology does deserve what it’s getting from the hackers because of its all-out war on Internet free speech, internet critics and the democratized flow of information over the Net. Millions of individual Scientology victims around the world probably also think Scientology does deserve not only the hacker’s Sisyphus punishment but much, much more as well.
Our organization Factnet does not believe that anyone or any organization deserves the absolute technology nightmare that the world’s most skilled hackers are and will continue to deliver to Scientology without a foreseeable end. It is just too much. We also do not condone breaking the law in any form, by anyone! What the hackers are doing is revenge and retribution not justice.
We do feel that covering this story and its many perspectives is vital to both public safety and ongoing dialog concerning critical issues of pubic concern on the Internet. We feel that this story is so important to Internet social issues that we are continuously adding dated new content and links --- so check back to it regularly!
The Story History:
The following hacker’s story links will bring you up to date in sequence on the “Anonymous” Hackers and Tom Cruise videos and the many new stories coming out relating to the “Anonymous” Hacker’s current hacks on Scientology. They are arranged in a descending order from first stores to the most current breaking news.
“Anonymous” Hackers Vow to “systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form.”
C/NetNews.com by Robert Vamosi January 24, 2008
A copyright violation claim by the Church of Scientology against the posting of one of its videos to YouTube has prompted a full-on assault by a group calling itself Anonymous. The video, in which Tom Cruise proclaims, in part, that Scientologists are the only experts on the mind, was pulled by YouTube over the weekend at the request of the Church of Scientology as part of a long-standing effort to keep copyrighted material from appearing on the Internet. Other sites have since posted the Cruise video in full.
In response to the take-down of the Cruise video, a group of vigilantes–calling themselves Anonymous, or Anon–have retaliated against what they consider to be Internet censorship. The group includes computer experts capable of Internet mischief. In recent days, local chapter sites for the Church of Scientology have been defaced, and in some cases denial of service attacks have also prevented access to the same sites. Real-world attacks have included fax-spamming those same offices.
As an explanation for these attacks, Anonymous posted its own video to YouTube. In the video, a computer-generated voice speaks over a rolling cloudscape, effectively putting the Church of Scientology on notice:
“Over the years, we have been watching you, your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent, your litigious nature. All of these things have caught our eye.
“With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed, 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.”
The video ends, with the following statement:
“We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget.
Expect us.”
Watch The Video HERE!
The Church of Scientology, founded in 1953 by L. Ron Hubbard, is not without previous controversy on the Internet. In 1996, it sued Internet service provider Netcom (now a part of EarthLink) over copyrighted texts posted to the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology. The case was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. In 2003, the Church of Scientology attempted to sue a Dutch woman and her ISP over similar writings but lost. The Dutch case, had it ended differently, could have changed the way ISPs handle third-party links by its customers. In 2007, writer Keith Henson was arrested as a fugitive. Under a California law that criminalizes any threat against someone else’s “free exercise” of religion, Henson was convicted in 2001 for making a comment on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup about sending a “Tom Cruise” missile to destroy the Scientology camp.
A Web site called Project Chanology details present actions and those in the works by Anonymous and others.
Click here for a quick overview of the war’s early history http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/"Anonymous"_performs_denial_of_service_attacks_on_Scientology_websites
IMHO
FACTNet
***editors note: This story has really “HIT THE FAN!!!” It’s all over the net and the press. Fox news is now claiming these hackers are attacking innocent “My Space” users…What is one to believe? How powerful or far reaching is Scientologys anti-propaganda machine???
FoxNews on youtube
There are all kinds of youtube video responses to the FOX story and who knows who is making these now. It’s a “media circus” out of control…and the crazies are coming out of the woodwork….
Get the “Straight dope” on Wiki News!!!CLICK HERE!!!
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NBC.COM
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Digg.com
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