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Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon. The "distributed denial of service" attacks flooded the websites with traffic, forcing them offline about 5.20pm yesterday. As of this morning, the foundation had still not been able to restore the websites. The attacks may be related to the Global Atheist Convention, which is being held in Melbourne in March next year. Speakers include Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion and comedy writer Catherine Deveny. About 1000 tickets have been sold so far through the Global Atheist Convention website, which was set up, and is operated, by the AFA. The AFA is billing the event as the largest gathering of atheists in Australian history but ticket sales have had to be halted for now due to the cyber attack. David Nicholls, president of the AFA, said it was not yet clear whether the attacks were motivated by religion or conservative Christian groups' anger at the AFA's lobbying for a more secular society. However, the fact that two separate atheism-related websites were hit suggested the attack was targeted at atheists. "We have been informed that the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention sites were the specific target of the attacks," Nicholls said, adding he had reported the incident to the Australian Federal Police. "This may not be just an attack on atheism, but an attack on freedom of speech." The company hosting the websites has disconnected them in the face of the attacks, which knocked out other websites hosted by the provider. Now, the AFA must find a new host and Nicholls said he expected the sites to be back online within half a day. "Our aim is to keep the Australian government, education and welfare systems secular," Nicholls said. "Unfortunately, some people in our society find that very confronting." The cyber attacks are reminiscent of last year's major attacks on Scientology websites by a group of loosely connected online miscreants that called themselves Anonymous. In May this year, 19-year-old Dmitriy Guzner from New Jersey agreed to plead guilty to playing a part in the attacks, which crashed Scientology websites. The final outcome of the case is not clear but he faced up to 10 years in prison

Some silly God botherer no doubt.

skippy - it is indeed an attack on freedom of speech.

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.........This may not be just an attack on atheism, but an attack on freedom of speech........

i trust in our secular society to ensure we maintain and improve our freedom of speech against such acts and any others.

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i trust in our secular society to ensure we maintain and improve our freedom of speech against such acts and any others

The problem is many Christians and Muslims for that matter don't hold the same opinion as you.

Probably some snot-nosed adolescent who thinks it's funny.

God will punish him.  :D

Serves you right you bloody godless heretics!!

If you weren't such a bunch of hopeless Luddites you could've prevented the believing hax0r from 0wning j00!

english please ? abusive intolerant muslim

abu_rashid wrote on Oct 21^st, 2009 at 11:19pm:

Serves you right you bloody godless heretics!! If you weren't such a bunch of hopeless Luddites you could've prevented the believing hax0r from 0wning j00!

OOh, it looks like our resident Muslim had a few drinky poos last night.

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our resident Muslim had a few drinky poos last night.

I think not.

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english please ?

It's the '1337 5p34k' of hackers... never mind sprint. You have enough trouble with mainstream English let alone that of obscure sub-cultures.