anonymous strikes first

You may not be familiar with religiousfreedomwatch.org, but it certainly sounds like a group interested in protecting constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms, right? Wrong. The site is a thinly veiled attempt by the Cult of Scientology to pretend they care about all religions, when in fact it is a site devoted, apparently, to bitching about and slandering the enemies of Scientology. Why do I say apparently? Read on.

My post yesterday about the anonymous group interested in destroying Scientology was more than just an idle threat on YouTube. The Cult of Scientology posted a $5000 reward (a likely broken link to that reward) in response to that video. The reaction from anonymous was simple: DOS the site. DOS mean Denial of Service and simply floods the target site with so much traffic that it brings the webserver housing the site to its knees. Everything I was able to learn about "religiousfreedomwatch" was through Google's cache and Digg comments because anonymous has already struck a blow to Scientology by wiping this web-site off the Internet.

Maybe I'm getting a little dramatic about it, but if anonymous continues this attack using the tactics they espouse in that first video, the Cult of Scientology is doomed. I, for one, won't miss them.