Anonymous church of scientology hack

Ultimately media for the lulz is outside organizational control, and has very specific traits of being exploitable, pleasurable, and full of spectacle. Sometimes it turns into a viable political force, which is the specific phenomenon Coleman and Brunton are beginning to study, but it just as easily falls away.

Brunton explains that socially, lulzy groups are like the universal solvent. Coleman and Brunton plan to publish their ongoing work and tools for attempting to exploit the lulz for poltical purposes at lulzymedia. The Hackers on Planet Earth conference is an outsized meeting that happens every two years in New York.

It's come a long way in its time, ideas of hacking expanding from software to hardware, society, food and even sex. Quinn Norton is reporting live throughout the weekend. Anonymous has no leaders, and anyone can join Anonymous. Members of Anonymous keep their personal information and real names hidden from the public view and from each other, which helps support the decentralized framework of the group. Anonymous originally began attacking the Church of Scientology in late January , when the CoS took legal action to remove the now infamous Tom Cruise video from the internet.

It worked. Anonymous then allied with long-time Scientology critics and ex-members, and stormed the gates with a series of world-wide protests at Scientology centers on Feb.

Their next set of protests is planned for March 15, in most major cities around the world. Externally, Scientology has been largely silent, with the exception of issuing a press release calling Anonymous cyber-terrorists, communists, Fascists, Nazis, religious bigots and KKK members, which was released in the St.

Petersburg Times. Internally, reports indicate that Scientologists believe that Anonymous is being funded by evil psychiatrists. The Dutch case, had it ended differently, could have changed the way ISPs handle third-party links by its customers.

In , 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 for making a comment on the alt. Update at p. PST January Anonymous has since posted two new videos. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy , which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Anonymous hackers take on the Church of Scientology A vigilante group is threatening to expel the Church of Scientology from the Internet.

Robert Vamosi.