Who is Anonymous?

Who is Anonymous?
An On-line war is being waged against the Church of Scientology by an organized group of hackers calling themselves Anonymous. Anonymous have launched and all out campaign to systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology and all its followers. The group has tried multiple times to keep down the scientology.org website via a DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service attack) and has posted sensitive Scientology documents around the net. They describe the attacks as punishment for the Church's alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members.

As a response to many of the attacks on The Church of Scientology, the hacker group has
posted videos on youtube to explain their intentions towards the religious cult.

"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....
we are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget, expect us." -Anonymous




The attacks on Scientology started off by the Church's attempt to censor the internet by forcing sites to remove Scientology videos. In response to the take-down of the Scientology videos, the group Anonymous has retaliated against what they consider to be Internet censorship. The group includes computer experts capable of infiltrating private networks. In recent months, sites for the Church of Scientology have been defaced, and in some cases been attacked with denial of service attacks that have prevented users from gaining accessing to the site.

The Church of Scientology has sued Internet Service provider Netcom in 1996 for copyrighted texts posted on the newsgroup alt.religion.Scientology. And in 2003 the Church tried to sue a Dutch woman and her Internet Service Provider on similar issues but got thrown out of court. In 2007 a writer by the name of Keith Henson was arrested for making a comment on the alt.religion.Scientology news group "about sending "Tom Cruise" missile to destroy the Scientology Camp". The Scientology Church went after him under a California Law that criminalizes any threat against someone else's free exercise of religion. "Henson's frequent encounters with Scientology, coupled with his lengthy resume of programming, electrical engineer and futuristic accomplishments, have made him something of a legal cause celebre in technology circles" CnetNews has stated.

Click here to read Henderson's article on Cnet

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