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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[quote comment="273098"]Scientology is a crazy religion but so what?[/quote]
That depends on what country you’re in. Scientology in many countries is not legally a religion, but a business. Makes a big difference.
Please, stop bashing the anon who participated in this discussion. He is obviously trying to manipulate this article so that it is impossible for internal information to be leaked from it.
Anonymous has my support against scientology. It’s time we step to the plate and declare once and for all, that were not gonna watch and sit on the sidelines as millions of good people become brainwashed and manipulated(physically and mentally) by a ludicrous organization claiming “The study of truth”. When in fact, their religion is completely contrary to their motto; Scientology believes in your money, the more you spend the more bullshit they tell you about their galactic federation, fantasy land space adventures BS…
all this shits sounds like the beginnings of the nazi (hubby is like buddah) and the anticrist that notradamus said
so..every one that dares to not think like them…will be squashed???
i feel threatened by the xien7ologs.
this is blowing out of proportion
The issue with Scientology is not that they have silly beliefs - anyone may have a silly belief; it’s a free country, please go ahead and believe in what you want.
The issue is the money.
Money for courses, money for auditing, money to go up a level, etc.
They bleed people dry.
World religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, well, they don’t charge thousands of dollars for their sacred texts.
OH NOES U INTERVIEWED A BOSS OF ANON!!
HEZ OUR LEEDAR, TEH SUPAHACKAR!
FAIL.
I want in Let me join Anonymous.
Ok just to clarify for ALL of you. Anonymous has been around for years! On all the chan sites. Everyone on the dozens and dozens of chan sites are anonymous. they have been since the Japanese futabachan.
Rules 1 & 2, anyone?
Several months ago, my best friend was diagnosed as a schizophrenic after suffering a mental breakdown at the age of 22. He spent a period of time in a mental hospital, and was put on a course of anti-halluginogens and psychiatric therapy.
This would be bad for anybody, but he had the misfortune of being in a devoutly Scientologist family. Over the years, this family had blown tens of thousands of dollars on the Church’s bogus courses. But what was most dangerous was the Church’s paranoid opposition to the medical practice of psychiatry, which they claim to be an evil conspiracy.
In fact, their opposition to psychiatry derives from the fact that they claim that their courses are their only true path toward mental health, and thus compete with genuine psychiatric treatment. As their methods of treatment have no scientific basis, they are forced to slander the profession of psychiatry, and their propaganda is full of the most ridiculous nonsense that practically equate psychiatry with Satanism.
For my friend, this was to have dreadful consequences. His mother refused to allow him to take the medication that he had been prescribed, and terminated his course of therapy, while telling him that the doctors who had diagnosed him were evil criminals. You can imagine the effect that this would have had.
Over the following year, his condition worsened. The untreated schizophrenia forced him to drop out of college and lose his part time job, while graducally hallucinations and paranoia drove him mad. His parents’ told him to “just snap out of it”, refusing to believe that any condition diagnosed by a psychiatrist could actually exist.
Eventually, he was so tormented by his illness that he decided to take his own life, and went into a forest to hang himself. Miraculously, a stranger passing through cut him down while he was hanging, saving his life. He suffered a broken neck and a smashed jaw and spent a month in a coma in hospital.
Fortunately his parents were sufficiently devestated by the suicide attempt to allow him to recieve therapy to address his schizophrenia. In fact, all he needed the whole time was some simple medication. I wonder how many other people there are out there who are being prevented from recieving the help that they need due to religious idiocy. I lay the blame for this tragedy squarely at the feet of the Church of $cientology, and just hope that there are not too many other victims of mental illness trapped within this anti-medicine, anti-science cult of quackery.
there are global irl raids going on right now..
watch the news chans
i don’t get it if scientology is a cult and and it’s main objective is coin , intimitdation and legal recourse is thier stock and trade how come thier getting bigger seems to me like a paradox.
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We are the future.
We are everywhere.
Resistance is futile.
We are… uh,
uh,
hang on a sec…
“MOM, WILL YOU JUST RELAX? I’LL BE UP IN A MINUTE! GEEZ!”
um, ok, sorry about that.
ahem.
We are all-powerful.
We are…
“MOM, I SAID I WOULD BE UP IN A MINUTE
This interview is rubbish.
Anonymous does not have a spokesperson.
Anonymous has no identity.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
All I have to say is:
Scientology is a cult, they are just getting more and more members to gain more money and more media attention…
Also if anyone ACTUALLY knows how to get in touch with someone from Anonymous email me because I would like to help out in the fight;
PandaXPwnage@aim.com
[quote comment="287283"]All I have to say is:
Scientology is a cult, they are just getting more and more members to gain more money and more media attention…
Also if anyone ACTUALLY knows how to get in touch with someone from Anonymous email me because I would like to help out in the fight;
PandaXPwnage@aim.com[/quote]
Use google ;)
First off, you cannot interview anonymous. That would suggest that you interviewed a spokesperson that generally speaks for anonymous. However, Anonymous is made up from a large number of individuals each with his or her own agenda. Thus, it is not possible to interview suck a group.
This is like going to a football game, interviewing one person, and then claiming that everything that person said represents the entire stadium’s views. This is not correct. I don’t know who you talked to, but they have a poor understanding of what anonymous actually is.
Unless, of course, they meant to troll you. In which case, I support your anon-interviewee, for troll you he did.
Anonymous should adopt a cell structure.
Anon has no hierarchy; there is no inner sphere, no secret handshake, and no members list.
While different voices are listened to more than others in different situations and at different times, there are always dissenting voices and factions. Therefore, any single anon who claims that he can speak for all anonymous, is a liar.
Remember the rules.
i want t join anonymous
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Basically anon needs everyone. This is a fight for the internet itself as we know it. We like the place as it is and we love the freedom of speech and information here. We have even been given support from the furfags.
The Co$ are against everything that the internet stands for and for this they need to be removed.
I hope many will join us on March 15th
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