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Paranoidbot Diskeeper Craig Jensen and Scientology

Paranoidbot Diskeeper Craig Jensen and Scientology

Heres a hypothetical question - would you install this program on your Windows machine? Heres some features:

1) Its chief CEO is a high ranking Scientologist.

2) It trains its staff in the L Ron Hubbard Management system

3) It rummages through your entire machine, poking around, pushing, pulling and rearranging your files.

Would you say yes? As youre the kind of person whos found Skeptobot then answer is probably "no."

But yet you almost certainly have. Diskeeper
is a defrag corperation, that is run by, and trains its staff in Scientology nonsense. These people then develop the inbuilt Windows defrag software that you use to neaten up your hard drive, and poke around.

Isnt it slightly concerning that Scientology has such access to the whole of your hard drive?

Back in 2000, good old Germany (which beautifully defines Scientology as a "psycho-group") began investigating Diskeeper as a threat to the Constitution.(wired article)

To which the CoE replied:

"Politicians have this theory that we will invade the government and German firms. This really is a stupid thing. What use would we have for all of this data?"

Now one of the main stages in "Auditing" in Scientology is the "PreClear" folders. Its like Confession, where you tell them all your worst secrets (to weaken the attachment of your alien thetans one would expect), and then they store them for all time. "Securely."

Couple that with the California ruling (about the persecution of ex-scientologists) that states:

"…the Church has in its possession his or her most inner thoughts and confessions, all recorded in pre-clear (P.C.) folders or other security files of the organization, and that the Church or its minions is fully capable of intimidation or other physical or psychological abuse if it suits their ends. The record is replete with evidence of such abuse.

From here - page 8 (pdf).

Now Im sure that Scientology arent secretly spying on your machine. But I dont trust them. So I think its an interesting point to be aware off.

Remember the classic privacy slogan - if youve nothing to hide - youre boring.

Disclaimer: Im still researching what has and is happening. I know for sure that Diskeeper software is in Windows 2000, and Im pretty certain its in XP. Ive no idea about Vista. I left that rancid OS brand years ago so Ive no access to any Windows machines.

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