Scientology, that pseudo religion, has been in the news a lot this past month. the main start was when a leak of a 2004 internal video praising Tom Cruise for his achievements, was spread over the internet. Scientologist assholes demanded the take-down of the video claiming DMCA violation and it indeed disappeared......only to rte-appear many more times under different names and on many websites the more infamous it became.
many sites had DMCA notices asking for the video to be taken down, other sites
REFUSED and kept it citing it was "new worthy", and other reasons.
some just refused
that was the start, then another internal video popped up. this time it was the very video used for
orientation "purposes. this is the video used to start people off into the cult of Scientology.
next, an interesting development on the offensive against Scientology, an anonymous group called "Anonymous" officially
revealed themselves and stated their intentions against the cult. finally an identity was put to the incidents. they never claim any responsibility for any action, so the leaked videos, the leaked documents, etc are never claimed to be the work of the group.they simply have posted videos asking people to "
learn and be aware", and to protest outside Scientology centeres around the world.
then, a
massive archive of Scientology internal documents was again leaked. also, again, no one claimed responsibility for the leak. no proof that it was anonymouse, and even it was proved....who IS anonymouse
later, hackers declare war on Scientology with "
project chanology".
then, like some viral marketing for a hollywood movie, curious images bagan popping up all over the internet.......
then as things more more proactive at anonymouse, they
attacked scientology's internet connections vie hacked I.P. addresses. a DDoS is the equivelent of too many people trying to get through your front door...no one gets in because there isn't enough room for anyone. so many, many people connected to the scientology servers and the result is that the servers can't satisfy any of the server "requests" to give them the web page, and no one gets in...including genuine website requests. hence the server either locks up or may even crash and burn.
TIME magazine did a nice expose' about the cult in 1991 (believe it that things haven't goten any better since).
things continue to leak from the Cult of scientolgy as the
Training Manual was leaked onto the net for all to see and try to understand (it's impossible to decode all the jargon and none of it makes any sense as to what it actualy "does").