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Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

... though you may not.

Scientology's site attacking Anonymous has been Rick-Rolled. *

Say what you will about slippery slopes, that there is funny.

There was also an article about protests in New York on Hubbard's birthday (or something).

The same day a friend of mine was strolling around Edinburgh and ran into some Anonymous chaps in Guy Fawkes-ish get ups. She posted pictures on her Live Journal.

It all seems very playful and non-violent, what with the signs saying "Our silliness is free!" and so forth. I just seem to be coming in contact with this stuff more and more. It's interesting to watch from the peanut gallery.

*or possibly that was just made to look that way. I don't know. Still worth a giggle though.

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

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Say what you will about slippery slopes, that there is funny.

I want to be on the fence on this one, but it IS funny.

Now I won't be able to get that damned song out of my head for hours.

Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :

Pwnt!

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

And it's still there... Is this seriously the real site?

Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :

I'm pretty sure it is. So enjoy it while it lasts. I can't imagine it'll be up too long.

Hilarious.

Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :

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parody site not affiliated with CoS. you got rick rolled!

Is what it says- so it's not the Church of Scientology.

Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :

damn.

Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :

Maybe they hijacked the domain of the real site. That's kinda what it looks like, and I imagine that's how you'd go about that.

Download the html code of the original site (it's impossible to protect against), modify it however you please, put it up on your own server and then send some sort of worm or virus through the DNS servers to repoint the domain name to that server's IP.

Least ways that's one way they might accomplish that. I dunno if that's actually possible or how secure the DNS servers are. I mean DNS servers are by definition built to percolate information virally so if you can get around the security protocols... And there are some pretty seriously good hackers in Anonymous.

Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :

So this isn't a real site?

Shucks. That would have been great.

Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :

yeah, i assumed it was real because of the url. Alcon, you're probably close to being right about what happened.

Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :

The real site is www.anonymous-exposed.org (note the hyphen)

Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :

How's that systematic dismantling going?

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Okay, see, that's funny, since people looking for the real site would very easily type this in instead.

Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :

Aw. It doesn't say anything like that now. Just that Anonymous is a cyber-terrorist group and here's a video to help you identify them. [Frown]

Edit to add: It looks identical to the real site, but it doesn't have the parody tag now.

Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :

no, it still does. It's a really dark color, almost identical to the background at the bottom. Try highlighting that extra box