Scientology Hackers Ask Pirates To Join Their War
Written by Ernesto on January 27, 2008Anonymous, a small group of scriptkiddies and high-level hackers started a war against the Church of Scientology this week. TorrentFreak managed to get an exclusive Q&A with the controversial group, in which they ask Pirates to join their fight.
In an attempt to punish Scientology for abusing copyright laws and brainwashing of its members, Anonymous launched a series of DDoS attacks to remove the Church from the Internet. It seems, however, like this this is only the beginning.
“We will continue our efforts to bring down Scientology, but we need the help and support of another Freedom fighting community, the pirates.” one of Anonymous’ members told TorrentFreak, and the group gave us the opportunity to ask a couple of more questions.
TorrentFreak: Can you briefly describe what “Project Chanology” is?
Anonymous: Project Chanology is the project to bring down Scientology. Nothing more, nothing less. Why that name? Well, we’re working from IRC ‘Channels’ against ‘Scientology’. Mix those words together and add the project in front, and you have it.
TorrentFreak: How did Anonymous start? and how many people take part in it?
Anonymous: Anonymous is an old group of friends. I don’t exactly know the date, but it has been raised by some friends who wanted to test out their hacking skills. Since then, they created Anonymous, and let it be open for anyone who wants to join. That made it into a new kind of hackers-group. It consists of two spheres. The outer sphere is for new people. They mostly are low-skilled and are “scriptkiddies”. Since they have a very good contact with the inner sphere (we’re all friends fast and easily), anyone is allowed to join the inner sphere of high-level hackers. This is a loose representation since it doesn’t fit always. But, this made it for sure into a group of scriptkiddies with the right tools and high-level hackers with the right skills.
TorrentFreak: What is your main motivation to ban Scientology from the Internet?
Anonymous: Scientology is a malicious organization. Here’s a YouTube clip that proves more. Also, they’re frequently taking off content from the Internet. Like a clip in which Cruise promotes Scientology too much, criticizing health science, etc… it would have brought Scientology in a bad situation. So they took it off all sites with an army of lawyers. This is censoring. This is bad. This is against Net Neutrality. This is taking away our freedom and our right to fight for that freedom.
TorrentFreak: Don’t you think your actions violate the freedom of speech?
Anonymous: It does violate the freedom of speech. Of course, we know that. But there should be a refinement. Anonymous fights for freedom of speech in a way they have always used, but a little bit rougher however. For a greater sake.
TorrentFreak: Do you see any parallels between your fight against Scientology and the conflicts between pirates and the entertainment industry?
Anonymous: Yes. Most of us are pirates too. We have no big money to start lawsuits. But the enemy, the MAFIAA and Scientology are both big companies. They misguide the law, they change the law. Scientology members have infiltrated in many governments. Just like the MAFIAA.
TorrentFreak: What is your ultimate goal for “Operation Chanology”?
Anonymous: Our ultimate goal is to let Scientology say in public that they are misleading many people. And that they are destroying the futures of many people.
TorrentFreak: How do you plan to accomplish this goal, apart from the DDoS attacks?
Anonymous: We have IRL raids in planning stage, we have real life protests and demonstrations coming up. We are infiltrating their networks with zip bombs. We are sentencing them.
TorrentFreak: You told us that you wanted the pirates to help you to free the Internet, how can people help?
Anonymous: People can help Anonymous by joining the IRC, get one of the DDoS tools and start firing the DoS. IRC is at irc.partyvan.org. Channels are #Target , #Lazer and #Xenu. There are also many local channels. They can also help us by joining protests, by telling other people about this, by telling their media, etc… The force of humanity will save many lives.
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Update: As many already argued, it turns out that the person interviewed here is an Anonymous member from the “outer sphere”, who is not as informed as he appeared to be. Sorry.
“I know that I’m not as informed as the inner sphere. However, I had a source which I thought was from there, providing me many answers. He faked his status.
But we do not have one spokesperson. We do not have a leader.
We unite as one, divided by none.
Together, we will bring them down in their glory.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.”
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‘Anonymous, a *small* group’
DUDE, are you kidding me?
hail xenu!
Obviously the people don’t understand the definition of anonymous. Let me help, courtesy M-W.
Main Entry:
anon·y·mous Listen to the pronunciation of anonymous
Pronunciation:
\ə-ˈnä-nə-məs\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Late Latin anonymus, from Greek anÅnymos, from a- + onyma name — more at name
Date:
1631
1 : not named or identified
2 : of unknown authorship or origin
3 : lacking individuality, distinction, or recognizability
So, yes. If this is a surprise to anyone reading this, you are anonymous if you’d not be so lazy and actually think about it.
IF you still need help figuring this out, just give up.
Oh snap!
VERY SMALL INDEED, MY GOOD SIR.
lols
ITI: wink wink nudge nudge lies
lols
I think this is a great oppertunity that needs taking advantage of for anon and the pirate community. We can help them acheve their goals of riding the internet of scientology and show that you can’t fool the masses. By the same token they might want to help us out with our fight against the rediculous laws the recording and copyright orgnizations have put into place by fighting back against them in the same fasion. This could relly me a turning point for many people and really promote change in a positive direction.
we have reviewed most of the data we can find on scientology,
we have come to the conclusion they are just as corrupt as the other religions, and as evil as the MPAA and RIAA and their army of lawyers.
You have our support.
if this fails we all fail, it will prove that a large overbearing power has the ability to silence us. This is why we must help it is in everyones interest other then Scientology,the RIAA and MPAA
Allow me to say quite simply, you have *completely* missed the point of who and what we are.
Torrent freak got ripped off. This isn’t anonymous
This is probably the most ridiculous article I’ve ever read on Torrentfreak, in fact I can’t even believe it was posted.
Scientology is a crazy religion but so what? So is Christianity and most others. You want to destroy their web presence because of some clip you saw on YouTube that proves of their brainwashing? Dude, have you people ever been to church? Ever been to catachysm? Ever been baptised while you were an infant and had no say in the matter? Religion works BECAUSE it brainwashes. Scientologists are no different.
And besides, they have the right to protect their works (referring to the Tom Cruise clip that leaked). Just like people do in the movie business. I’ll still download movies for free, but they can at least try to protect their assets. It makes no difference to me. Goddamn, you guys are pathetic. Do your parents know what you’re up to? Maybe they should take away your internet privileges.
Interesting. I’ll scope out the war and decide if I should put me hacking skills to use.
Necromanson, if you’d stop spewing your righteous liberal-babble and take a look at what the hell anonymous puts out there via torrent, you’d see Scientology isn’t a religion. It’s a business.
Or did you just lolassume that Scientology is a religion and decided to open your mouth out because you love hearing/reading your words?
fuking scriptkiddies. let’s see you do this to MAFIAA?
There’s ALOT of people involved in this now. It started roughly a week ago and the participants is growing with 100+ a day.
So far Anons managed to shutdown many scientology sites, including the protected main site.
Phones have been prankcalled all over the world forcing some churches to unplug or not answer for now. Faxes has been bombed by fullyblack pages. And much more.
This is not a small group. It might have started with 50ish but it’s much much larger now.
What the hell is scientology all about? Do they have a God? or is money their God?
Seems people into this shit are really f&$#ed in the head.
Necromanson, instead of the standard internet atheist knee-jerk response about how *ALL* religions are bad, realize that this isn’t about the religion per se, it’s criminal institution Church of Scientologists that will and needs to to be destroyed.
[quote]What the hell is scientology all about? Do they have a God? or is money their God?[/quote]
Get ready to laugh your ass off. Seriously, what they believe is utter insanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology
LOL SMALL CHAN=2CHAN,4CHAN,ETC.
THIS GUY IS STUPID
ANONYMOUS IS MANY, NO ONE PERSON CAN SPEAK FOR ANONYMOUS
DO SOME RESEARCH
I’m hoping this is a bad attempt at a troll, otherwise, please do research fix your mistakes.
Anonymous is not pleased. Anonymous does not give interviews. Anonymous giving an interview is like masturbation. Anonymous is everyone and no one. Anonymous has therefore decided that this is a failure.
As you see, this interviewed guy represents himself as multiple ones.
He talks about ‘we’.
He surely knows a lot, and is trying to get all attention, like it should be!
[quote comment="273098"]
Scientology is a crazy religion but so what? So is Christianity and most others.[/quote]
Contrary to popular belief, mainstream Christianity/Judaism/Hinduism in North America and Europe may have opinions about every matter under the sun, but no member of the majority of these religions argues that opposing viewpoints and arguments should be silenced [God gives us freedom, who are we to take its away, etc. etc. etc.].
Scientology is different, in that it fanatically seeks to suppress and annihilate (rather than disagree with and counter) any and all opposing arguments and viewpoints.
Not only that, but while the higher ranks of any religion hold individuals who hold absolutely no regard for the ideals of the religion, only cold-hearted greed for the money and power the position generates, only in scientology is the entire upper echelon composed of these sort of people [usually there's a ratio between bloodsucker/fanatics, there its all bloodsuckers].
Finally, in the past twenty years in the first world, the only major “religion”/cult to fanatically try to suppress destroy and illegalize all opposition (including by means of infiltrating government) is scientology.
So are scientology, Christianity, and all other religions crazy? Sure. But of them all, scientology is the most dangerous. Its what would happen in a Patriot Act supporter’s or MAFFIA supporter’s wet dream: total control over all information everywhere. Scary.
[quote]Well, we’re working from IRC ‘Channels’ against ‘Scientology’. Mix those words together and add the project in front, and you have it.[/quote]
Oh fuck, I was going to read the rest of this story until you said this, now I know you are an idiot. Ernesto, don’t post stupid shit.
Lawl.. Just, lawl…
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