"The Dharma Initiative has withdrawn their sponsorship from LOST"

I continue to report on the whole "Dharma Wants You" summer alternate reality internet game thingy because, let's face it, nothing much else is going on. If you don't know what I'm talking about, start here, but the jist is: there's this real-life Dharma Initiative website where they're "recruiting new members," and at Comic-Con in July one of the "new members" "leaked" "secret footage" to everybody at the Lost panel. And now I'll stop using quotation marks.

Anybody who went to DharmaWantsYou and registered (I think you still can) got the following e-mail:

As many of you may be aware there have been a number of security breaches in recent days related to the nature of the Dharma Initiative's latest research.
Apart from the leak of a sensitive internal communication there was also the unauthorized release of confidential video documentation during a sponsored panel discussion with the makers of the TV show "LOST" at Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego. Consequently, the person responsible for this breach, a promising recruit by the name of Dan Bronson, has been expelled from the volunteer program and had his Dharma Initiative membership permanently revoked. Furthermore, the Dharma Initiative has withdrawn their sponsorship from "LOST".

The Dharma Initiative must stress that the video material leaked at Comic-Con 2008 was viewed entirely out of context. Furthermore, the way in which the material was presented utterly distorted its significance and credibility as scientific data.

The Dharma Initiative is extremely disappointed with this outcome and has ordered a security audit of all departments. As part of this audit the DharmaWantsYou recruiting website will undergo a security upgrade in the next few days.

Upon completion of this upgrade a date will be announced for the official commencement of Volunteer Assessments.

All recruits are reminded that the unauthorized release of confidential information pertaining to the details of your activities within the Dharma Initiative will result in instant dismissal from the volunteer program.

Namaste.
Hans Van Eeghen
Head of Recruiting
The Dharma Initiative

Oh, and check out the video they're talking about here. As always, more as it develops.

TAGS: Arg, Comiccon, Dharma Wants You
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