'Anonymous' Wages Attack on Scientologists

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 02/07/2008 - 6:56am

For the past several weeks, a video of Tom Cruise defending Scientology has been circulating on the Internet.

When the Scientologists tried to get it taken down, an Internet group calling itself "Anonymous" started a denial-of-service attack against the Scientology Web site.

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