Th Register has an article with details about an attack on the church of Scientology by a group calling itself Anonymous.

The attack apparently consists of not only a ddos (distributed denial of service) attack on their web site, but also sending black faxes, and publishing docuemnts Scientology claims copyright in.

The article has a link to a YouTube video explaining the reasons for the attack.

I support neither the Church of Scientology, nor this kind of attack – but it raises lots of issues to ponder around freedom of speech, religion, IP rights, hacker liability, security, etc. At the very least its entertaining.

Read the article