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.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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What kind of douche-bag would want to hack a peaceful site like this? What’s wrong with people?
RAmen.
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OK, my guesses? Anonymous, Scientology, or that L group that some nutter keeps threatening us about.
:D
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The Truth can never be stopped.
Praise the Noodly One.
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This is ridiculous, I think we all have a rather good idea of who did this and i’d just like to say to them, grow up!
Hope you manage to get the attacker/s prosecuted and keep the site running smoothly, RAmen.
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Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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Swweeeeeeeeet
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Grrrrr…Scurvy dogs. Nothing quite like silencing opposing points of view to win a debate.
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Well, Pastafarianism creates enemies in every religion, namely Christians and Scientologists.
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And… 99% of the Christians that post here are barely smart enough to write a legible sentence, let alone hack a network….. which leaves….
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The lengths some people will go to impede free speech. Whatever group you are, probably a bunch of computer nerds, in the basement of a church somewhere in the mid-U.S. Real mature, jerks.
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It is He. Testing your faith.
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It is He. Testing your faith in Him and His load balancing.
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Here’s a suggestion. Get proof of who did it, and since we are all assuming who it is, post who did it, then let all the awesome Pastafarians analyze how their actions completely go against what they supposedly stand for. I love how these unnamed cyber terrorists are the definition of hypocrites.
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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? Besides pissing off the fundies, who have we ever harmed? Why don’t they go after Westboro Baptist Church instead? They piss everyone off.
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great, looking forward to see the noodly developments! No silly DDOSing may slow His Holy Appendages!
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great, looking forward to teh new developments – no silly DDOSing may slow His Holy Appendages!
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The Hacks! Trying to keep our noodley master down. Keep on posting everone!
Pasta be with you,
Ramen
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Thanks for the update. I was beginning to wonder what was going on.
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I had been wondering why there had been so few posts, especially with the Florida “academic freedom” law being moved out of committee to be voted on by the full senate. I had hoped you would provide us with email addys so we could tell lawmakers to make sure that Pastafarian views are included in the protections.
Anyway, I have no clue who you could be referring to as the culprits behind the DDOS attacks. Could you give us some more hints?
Will
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Why would someone hack the blessed church Flying Spaghetti Monster!? Is there no peace left in this world that no single person can practice their own relgion!? RAmen.
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those dirty JEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahah jk
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damn scientologists
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Ah, how silly the infidels are – There is no hate for we the chosen; We only offer love… with beer and strippers. What’s so bad about that?
There ARE some who would rather silence all voices other than their own. They are morons.
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What is happening?
I am on a all time pasta low.
I need my daily shot.
Specially i miss the hate-mali`s.
I luve them.
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That sucks, I thought they would be too busy with Scientology or some other thing to mess with us. *sigh*
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I bet it was the Cama Rouge.
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well I never thought that HIS/Hers noodly goodness would bless me with being the first to say that we love you and stand on top of you in this holy pastalicious effort.
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ok…test
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It must be the Invisible Pink Unicorn Followers. They are jealous that our church is bigger and better than theirs.
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Because it is the holy holiday Friday i shall not cast judgement on who would want to hack an innocent and totally peaceful religous website. However the Flying Spaghetti Monster shall and those who have committed this attrocious will repent for their crimes, by denying them Beer Vocanoes and their own personal strippers with glitter
RAmen and pass the parmesian
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Because it is the holy holiday of Friday i shall not cast my judgement of who committed this horrible crime to a completely peaceful and fun loving religion. Howver the FSM shall make these persons repent their sins, by denying them Beer volcanoes and the almighty stripper factory. Stand strong My fellow believers.
RAmen and pass the parmesian
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As if a lines of binary code could ever stop our noodly master!!
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the Hare Krishnas, of course!
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Arrggh we’re being hijacked me mateys! man the cannon’s ye scallywags!
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Hare Krishnas! how dare they! first they massacre the pirates, then they try to shut down the site! the bastards!
or possibly chirstians
maybe scientologits cause we have that tom cruise video here, whatever
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BUT DEAR GOD! I am a part of the Anonymous organisation!
What am I to do now?! I wholeheartedly agree with their Habbo and CoS raids, but this has now gone too far!
And how did they get our secret video anyway? http://blog.seanbonner.com/2008/02/05/anonymous-vs-pastafarianism-leaked-fsm-video/
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………………………………………………….shame on who has done this a may the flying speghetti monster forgive you because i wont!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Just wondered how one cuestian. How do you explain things like a mirekal (if you guys use that word) like when somebody is trapped under a car or just something heavy. That they can lift it with their one hands. And that would be imposibble in some scientific way. i think you everybody has seen it on tv. like myself, i saw once a guy lift a helikopter(smal one) with his hands. and he could save his friend. if this wasnt god, how could this be posible. was it the fsm noddles that came down ad lifted it. just curios. please responde
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sorry for the bad spelling
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Until you’re “unhacked,” here is a link to an FSM political movement in Tennessee.
http://www.itlovesyou.blogspot.com/
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I dunno why anon would hack this site… Their target is scientology
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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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4chan
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@mac hawk
Don’t be a comedian. You’re not very funny even if you were “jk”.
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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.
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For the love of all that’s noodly, go look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaGgpGLxLQw
It is killer hilarious.
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We’ve had FSM signs at the protests. Fair Game?
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“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.
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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).
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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.
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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/
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Hacked or DDOSed? They are not the same.
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Ninjas?
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*Sigh*
They are jealous of Our Noodly Lord and His Awesome Tomato-ey Goodness.
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@ 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.
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Actually, what surprises me the most is why they waited so long to try something like that. Ah well.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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i don’t think it was Anonymous, it was probably Scienctologists who think we are part of Anonymous, or who are upset over the fact that we make so much more sense than they do.
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Well, how ’bout that? Shall we all chant: DEFENSE! DEFENSE! What is Bouncy-Tom e-scared of? Surely not the Flying Oprah Monster? A.k.a. his own actions and words? Calm down, Tommy – if you had the right deity, you wouldn’t be having these problems or Her/His denial-of-service.
Pasta-salad to all, raM-en!
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Wait, what about that society of L thing? maybe they are Scientologists! L. Ron Hubbard? Coincidence? I think not
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HIS NOODLY MESSAGE SHALL PREVAIL!
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Dickheads.
“Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”
Sorry to have been out of touch for a few weeks. Still trying to get back on an even keel. My physical woes have been mostly corrected, but other Stuff is still circling in the water, and it smells my blood.
DarkCityMedia (wherever you are), I sill owe you a response and some comments . I haven’t forgotten you, but my life is not being very user-friendly these days.
RAmen.
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I have a few friends who’ve got skills I could always ask them for a li’l help if we get confirmation of the chaos-causing culprAts
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@Curios Boy
“Just wondered how one cuestian. How do you explain things like a mirekal (if you guys use that word) like when somebody is trapped under a car or just something heavy. That they can lift it with their one hands. And that would be imposibble in some scientific way. i think you everybody has seen it on tv. like myself, i saw once a guy lift a helikopter(smal one) with his hands. and he could save his friend. if this wasnt god, how could this be posible. was it the fsm noddles that came down ad lifted it. just curios. please responde”
Sure – I’ll give you two answers:
1. Our bodies have a natural defense mechanism that prevents us from injuring ourselves by pushing ourselves to our absolute physical limit. That defense mechanism is “pain”. But under extreme circumstances, there is a “Fight or flight” response, with a huge surge of the hormone Adrenaline. When you, or a loved one, is in extreme danger, this response overwhelms your normal defenses, and allows you to use your muscles to their true maximum ability. It might appear superhuman, but it’s not. It’s just impressive.
Or – 2. There is really no gravity, the FSM got distracted and just stopped holding them down for a moment.
Take your pick.
RAmen
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By the spicy meatballs of the FSM – you don’t pay attention for a few weeks and see what happens! Personally, and without a shred of evidence, I think this hack attack exudes the odour of a CoS smear campaign. There have been more attacks on various websites, all attributed to “Anonymous”. Including one especially filthy one where epileptics were exposed to fit-inducing flashing images. Of old, CoS would counter any argument with “But $FOO is a pedophile!” So now Anonymous rejoices in the undivided attention of these gits. Unwelcome, but hardly unexpected.
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For all those saying this is that “Anonymous” group, if it were so, why would we be on their scientology protests? Answer that random populous
Ramen to all
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“I have a few friends who’ve got skills I could always ask them for a li’l help if we get confirmation of the chaos-causing culprAts”
- I would suggest you not. If, as I speculate, it is the work of Scientology; do you really want to stoop to their level?
- In addition, if you did, this would further give Scientology the ammunition against Anonymous. We’re trying hard to make a difference, but every blackhat and Ddoser with a problem is another step backwards.
- April 12th Opperation Reconnect. Be heard.
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I think it’s time for us to unite and team up with a large noodle factory to wage the first carbohydrate war (CWI) against trans-fat, non-organic foodstuffs, GMO’s and low-quality kitchen implements. That may help us win over some converts and quite a few admirers in other religious camps, especially those who claim to have extraterrestrial origins (aliens for sure can tell good pasta from bad).
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Is this denial of service attack why I can’t get registered with the discussion forum? I’ve tried a number of times and can’t get a reply.
I must remember to thank that nice Mr. Cruise the next time he passes by. I’ll deliberately crash my car so he gets out to help, because everybody knows non-Mr. Cruises are useless at helping during that sort of incident.
Pieces of eight!
RAmen.
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oh shit that aint good stupid hackers
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IT couldn’t of been anon, could it? we are both against scientology!
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throw the book at ‘em! a couple years in the joint and they might learn a thing or 2. Call the cops!
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I retract my statement.
I no longer believe it was Anonymous who boarded our ship.
I believe it was Scientology doing it and blaming it on them, and that the same thing goes for the attacks on MySpace.
I got paranoid when I saw the YouTube video where Anonymous “attacks” Pastafarians, thinking it was the same message to the Scientologists. That was when I wrote my previous comment.
But then I watched the YouTube video again, and realized it was a spoof.
I also saw the videos of the news reports of the attacks on MySpace, and other non offensive websites, with the claims that Anonymous is a threat to us.
Then I thought, “What’s wrong with this picture?”
Doesn’t this sound like something Scientology would do?
I apologize to Anonymous.
Please forgive this humble pirate.
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@ all the Anonymous posters:
Anonymous is the first group you think of when you hear about targeted hacking, but it is true that there’s no percievable motive. Scientology is indeed a possibility too- their MO seems to be more sueing into silence than hacking, but as Caveat Lector said, this could be another way to silence us. They may have a hacker or two along with all the lawyers.
Of course, there’s always a third option- unaffiliated hackers that are offended by our site for other reasons. There are enough of those without senses of humour out there.
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It’s all very simple, let me break it down for you:
The Rand corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires are working to destroy the meal of dinner…
Think about it…
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I know a few Anon personally and they consider us their ally in the fight against $cientology. so it is ither x-tians or $cientologists.
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People don’t really have an understanding of what Anonymous is. They are not some valiant defender-of-rights hackers. If “Anonymous” is attacking this site it will be purely for fun (for the lulz). That is their only motive. The Anti-Scientology protestors are a VERY small minority of people who considered themselves Anonymous before the Scientology Raids.
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“It’s all very simple, let me break it down for you:
The Rand corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires are working to destroy the meal of dinner…
Think about it…”
LAUGHS! I remember this! Ah! Love it.
Does Scientology really hate FSM that much? I thought i was mostly the illiterate Christians…
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Does anybody know how I can become part of the Anon? It is very confusing, I go on the website and it is pretty much blank.
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I can asure you that Anonymous wasn’t behind this attack. The majority of us support your actions, so ny DDoS would have been performed by either a seperate group, or some pillocks within our group.
Oh, and parker, Anon doesn’t recruit. By wanting in, you are in, at least as a new-fag.
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It may seem a DDOS attack, but I’m sure it’s just Him guiding new followers to this site en masse. An earthly thing such as a website will never withstand His force.
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I will appreciate if you provide more details on this. Thanks.
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