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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Just pirate every piece of software Shitology owns.
Quite annoying when a group of people decide to take things into their own hands. Even though… unless you can show that they are brain washing members, I only see you as a group of idiots that don’t agree with another persons beliefs. As people have the right to spend their money any way they want. As for them removing informations from the internet. A bit extreme but any business has the right to defend them selfs in some fashion. Information will always be available in other places no matter what. So… in conclusion… Show me proof of brain washing or something in that general field and then we will work from their.
The reason a lot of people hate Scientology is because not only do they act like a business, but they also are extremists, they have a giant legal team just like the RIAA and MPAA, with which they abuse anyone or anything that criticizes their “religion”(business) . If you read this BBC article you can see where the reporter says he’s basically been stalked by random people since he outburst against a member of the “church”(Offices).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6650545.stm
check out operation clambake for more information @ xenu.net (another site that had legal action forced against it)
and @ #23
If you can’t fucking realize that torrentfreak is more than just torrents but the changes in our society regarding an upcoming 1984, you shouldn’t be here… fucking idiot, don’t criticize the posters they keep you informed.
^–>>>> http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
Anon is pathetic. They are even more hypocritical than the ones they attack, and they are the reason people are afraid of the internet.
ahh… so … ehh?? you know.. put it like this for the question.
In doing said act..
Will 2 wrongs make a right?
as elementary as this may seem… keep in mind that the US Government does the exact same thing. when are you planning on picking a fight with them?
i belive they are just trying to build an “army” first.
the US Government is strong,
FBI, CIA, NSA, NG, USN, USAF, SS,
military + reserves, regualar cop,
ect. they all take orders from the same place.
We are anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
We are legion
Knowledge is free
Expect us
http://www.calloftheday.com/Message.html
Everybody NEEDS to see this.
there’s something really ****ed up when you try to fight intolerance with intolerance.
It’s like ****ing for virginity.
Sooner or later, all this intolerant groups will fell by their own faults, there’s no need to start a Jihad.
but jihads are fun
but Jihads are fun.
aww too bad their site has been hacked and taken down by The Regime: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27The_Regime%27_hacks_711chan.org_in_response_to_%27Anonymous%27_attack_on_Scientology%3B_takes_web_site_off_line
GOOD! after we destroy scientooly let’s bring down them christian nutheads. Do a search for religious keywords and click all their adwords/yahoo/etc ads!
but jihads are fun!
you are all retarded.
anonymous is not a “high level hacker”, he’s a bunch of stupid trolls from 4chan.
[quote comment="273179"]you are all retarded.
anonymous is not a “high level hacker”, he’s a bunch of stupid trolls from 4chan.[/quote]
Learn how speak and write in english, then maybe someone will take you seriously.
[quote comment="273173"]aww too bad their site has been hacked and taken down by The Regime: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27The_Regime%27_hacks_711chan.org_in_response_to_%27Anonymous%27_attack_on_Scientology%3B_takes_web_site_off_line/quote
lol
so another group called “the regime” steps up to the plate to take out “anon”
now we have a hacker war, yay
[quote comment="273179"]you are all retarded.
anonymous is not a “high level hacker”, he’s a bunch of stupid trolls from 4chan.[/quote]
Some Anonymous are - And any skill one Anonymous possesses, we all possess.
Scientologists are also everywhere…
be careful who you trust.
Worst article ever.
“aww too bad their site has been hacked and taken down by The Regime: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27The_Regime%27_hacks_711chan.org_in_response_to_%27Anonymous%27_attack_on_Scientology%3B_takes_web_site_off_line”
lol xD
I don’t know who was interviewed here but they are either lying or clueless. Saying Anonymous started as a core “small” group of friends has to be one of the most ignorant things I’ve seen on the internets. Seriously, while this person may or may not even be involved in project chanology, they do not speak for anonymous and they shouldn’t be speaking to anyone, considering that they say stupid shit.
Hey you Anonymous dumbass, take that shit off ThePirateBay. They are going through enough shit as it is. They don’t need script kiddies to post DDoS tools on their site for download.
No, I won’t take it off.
I asked ThePirateBay if I’m allowed, and they said it wasn’t a problem.
FYI, if you join their IRC channel, you can get easily in contact with their moderators, even adminstrators!
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