Our server has been the target of a ddos attack for the last couple of weeks. Many have noticed how infrequent the posts have been, and that the server has been down altogether several times - this is why.
We have a pretty good idea of which group is behind it, but I won’t mention their name here. You may be able to guess.
There have been some huge developments in FSM over the last couple of weeks - I’ll be putting up these posts soon.
Thank you for your patience.
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It is always good to hear from our beloved Prophet Bobby Henderson. I am disappointed that so many posters have jumped to various conclusions about the perpetrators of the DDoS. The Prophet never mentioned any names and no evidence has been presented. And, of course, we all know how important EVIDENCE is, right?
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Eagerly awaiting further revelations from the Prophet, may he always be bathed in the warmth of His sauce.
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RAmen
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@mac hawk
Don’t be a comedian. You’re not very funny even if you were “jk”.
I don’t think that it is anonymous that is doing the DDOSing. I haven’t seen any negative mentions of the FSM on any of their sites, and they enjoyed the scientology spoof. Normally, they broadcast on several different sites when they DDOS someone to try and recruit them to help. They haven’t done that for pastafarians.
For the love of all that’s noodly, go look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw
It is killer hilarious.
We’ve had FSM signs at the protests. Fair Game?
“If this “Anonymous” group were only attacking Scientology I would probably join them. But unfortunately they have also decided to target FSM. What a bummer! So far as I know, no one in this group has ever been brainwashed or scammed out of their life’s savings, and no Pastafarian has ever ended up like Lisa McPherson. So how did we get compared to them?”
Urm,
Hate to break it to you, but a fair amount of us are quite fond of the FSM.
I personally am wearing an FSM shirt and leafing through the Gospel right now.
Many of us included FSM related images on our banners and such for the last two real life protest. There is a youtube video of Anonymous retelling his road to finding enlightenment through Pastafarianism.
The way I see it, there are two explainations;
Scientology did it; the Gospel did not paint them in the best light, and with all these ‘connections’ caused by us in protests, Scientology may have attacked.
If that is the case, I personally apologise on account of the Collective for causing such an attack on you which was no doubt meant to target Anonymous.
The other is it was Anonymous, but not the Anonymous you think. Anonymous started out on the Chans, as did we, the Protesting Anonymous.
However, not all Anonymous believe that peaceful protests in order to raise awareness of Scientology’s wrong doings are the right thing to do.
Some are still stuck in the mindset that Habbo Raids and Hacking Myspaces are constructive uses of time.
If this is the case, I once again apologise on their behalf, if only to remind you that the men, women and children donning the masks and trying to make a difference are not like these people, and I would hope that these ddos attacks would not push you away.
Or, of course, it was another party. The internet is vast.
Anyway; I anticipate your update, Bobby.
Signed,
Anonymous.
Hmm, Tom Cruise is spending too much time on his computer lately, I think we should deliver some good Chinese noodles to his house to convince him that we are not a threat to anybody but ourselves (evil laughter in the background).
This is not the work of respected Anons. It is not endorsed by Anonymous. On websites where Anonymous reside, FSM is held in high regard. Do not blame every DDOS attack on the internet as coming from the same source; that’s absurd conjecture. For a non unified, non hierarchical group such as Anonymous, open communication is the key to organizing anything, and were there lulz to be had by harassing this website and it’s adherents, Anon would be here. However, most of Us know that there are far, far more lulz to be had through our support of you and your efforts.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We like our pasta with extra sauce.
Expect us . . . to work with you, not against you.
Hi there. I am a member of Anonymous. Please believe me when i say that we have not attacked you(To the full extent of my knowledge this is true). We have no reason to, nor would we want to (FSM makes us lulz too much!).
I do believe that if we are being framed for this then you should look to the “Church” of Scientology for answers. They run a Fair Game policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology). Every member of Anonymous has been branded a Suppressive Persons, please read the Wiki page on Fair Game to see what that means.
They are trying to make us seem like the bad guys. We are not. We are your doctors, engineers and teachers etc. Everything needs a balance, we see the “Church” of Scientology as it is now as something very evil which needs be changed. We are the balance, I am in no way saying we’re heros or knights in white armour.
So please, believe me when i say. We have not attacked you, we do not hate you and we are not your enemies - we do not wish to be either.
That is all i can say really. We’ll be taking to the streets again on April 12th - http://forums.enturbulation.org/
Hacked or DDOSed? They are not the same.
Ninjas?
*Sigh*
They are jealous of Our Noodly Lord and His Awesome Tomato-ey Goodness.
@ Paisely the Pirate
“OK, my guesses? Anonymous, Scientology, or that L group that some nutter keeps threatening us about.
:D”
I have a hard time imaging that Society of L thing having enough firepower to mess with the site. Post rude comments, maybe. It does sound in the style of Anonymous, though.
Actually, what surprises me the most is why they waited so long to try something like that. Ah well.
Techno-babble need not apply here. Sufficive to say, some idiot or another has decided to focus their efforts on the FSM. They didn’t go after gas companies, foreign countries, the government, sites that proclaim anarchy, file sharing sites, well established churches, or chinese production plants. They went after a social spot on the web with a propensity to attract people who are tired of those who wage rage wars on the basis of “I don’t like it” on implied religeous grounds, and those who’s life goal is to act without any thought at all, yet know with certainty that they can do no wrong.
I hope you can find them. I know that I once tracked down the real name of someone giving me trouble on the internet. All I had to do was wait until they got me into a good ranting mood before I posted the info I found publicly.
No, I doubt its Anonymous. Anonymous has gone to more peaceful ways to protest, and they certainly haven’t protested us. Nor do I think they’d want to.
On the other hand, while it wouldn’t surprise me to learn Scientologists are behind it, the site does have that one picture on it, it seems more likely to be Christian extremists, or Bored-Again Christian Teens.
Greetings and salutations, members of this respective church. I will tell you now that Anonymous is a beast unchecked when his wrath is unleashed, and the Scientologists WILL have deliverance dealt upon them. Your friends down at the seven eleven approve of your pro-piracy stance, and welcome you into our bosom as allies; if ANYONE supposedly rooted with Anonymous has targeted you, we have some very choice words for they who believe targeting one false religion opens the floodgates to target ALL religions.
It’s hard to say, probably anonymous; because if either the scientologists or christians did it they would do it under the anonymous umbrella. Scientologists are more likely because they are much more active when it comes to finding and destroying any criticism of their faith while begging for freedom of religion. Christians are also likely because our faith makes almost as much sense as the literaly interpretation of the bible, and we flaunt the simularities to them.
Even tho 99.9% of christians are too dumb to leave hate mail that has good spelling in grammar, let alone hack a network, 0.1% might be capable of it. But scientologists are more into silencing contradicting viewpoints than any other religion in america these days, so probably them under the veil of anonymous.
no, it wouldnt have been anonymous, our religion doesnt kill people. scientology does, so they wouldnt waste their time attacking peaceful religion’s websites. My vote is on the hubbard worshipers though.