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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This article is fail.
“Anonymous” is merely a collective of users from various communities who wish to remain anonymous while communicating with other users. GaiaOnline (QUALITY CONTROL), SA, etc. Its modern users think Anonymous is the zerg and must follow the will of the swarm. There are some with decent IT knowledge, but most of them just follow the rest and claim to be hackers.
I be in your comp illegaly downloading your thetans. But seriously, I was a Narconon employee for 2 years (it was a job), and these people are fkin wierd. Even as an employee, working through staff hats, we had to do alot of the crazy shit the people with more money than sense had to do in order to increase our staff level. Higher level = more pay. I couldnt really see the point of focusing intention be shouting at an ashtray, or staring at someone for an hour without luaghing (its quite hard to do) or taking a lump of clay and modeling ‘reality’. Glad I immigrated when I did, or I may be some suit wearing zombie.
eBaumsWorld FUCK YEAH!
Thanks torrentfreak; your quality has been slowly going down over time, but this has been the last straw.
You’re presonnly trying to cause harm and damage to a company/religion here, and that’s just stupid. It’s bad enough to write an article here that barely relates to file sharing, but it’s another when you encourage users to help these guys out.
[quote comment="273197"]This article is fail.
[/quote]
[quote comment="273152"]We are anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
We are legion
Knowledge is free
Expect us[/quote]
In all seriousness, this is the most ridiculous thing ever, just look at how these guys are talking. It’s almost as if the Matrix just came out and everybody is pretending to be a hacker. Are you guys going to nuke me?
Say what you want about Scientology, I still maintain that they are no more fucked-up than any other religion. Christianity has its fair share (a majority, actually) of cover-ups, they just don’t respond with a legal team (that’s what the Vatican is for). And to say that they are the only religion that is money-driven is insane.
your right it is insane
but it is still fun to watch them duke it out
I think that this Anonymous group is being a tad ridiculous with what they’re saying, but I can see where they’re coming from.
But I think you should read all you wrote and listen to what you sound like. It’s not good.
As I am Atheist, I found Scientology kind of… out of control.
Well, How is DDOSing their website going to do anything? Oh there website is down big woop.
*grabs popcorn*
Let’s watch the fun :D
[quote comment="273226"]As I am Atheist, I found Scientology kind of… out of control.
Well, How is DDOSing their website going to do anything? Oh there website is down big woop.
*grabs popcorn*
Let’s watch the fun :D[/quote]
i miss the days of pitchfork’s and torches
Their “ultimate goal” is completely deluded. Scientology will never admit or say such things. The only way to destroy scientology is through informing people about their nefarious ways, not silencing their propaganda online. These hackers tactics are about as smart as the MPAA/RIAA’s tactics against file sharing. Project Dumbshit needs to focus on informing the public and exposing Scientology secrets. An information campaign of sorts. Something to garner mass attention.
both digg and stumble upon have been doing just that
This isn’t anonymous!
I AM ANONYMOUS
why did they pick the name ANONYMOUS
their hacker rivals picked a decent sounding name, evil sounding but decent
[quote comment="273145"]Anon is pathetic. They are even more hypocritical than the ones they attack, and they are the reason people are afraid of the internet.[/quote]
People are afraid of the internet? Where? What people? My friends Grandma who tells him goodnight over MSN? Yeah, she’s terrified; shakin’ in her little booties!
pff, amateur…
[quote comment="273154"]www.calloftheday.com/Message.html
Everybody NEEDS to see this.[/quote]
To the common Scientologists,
We are Anonymous.
You have seen our actions, both online and in your cities.
We do not threaten you, the people.
We threaten the lies, the corruption and the greed of the organization.
We have not acted upon a whim, but in outrage of the treatment of its followers…
You.
You have not been given freedom by these people.
They have restricted you.
There is a realm of the internet you have not dared to face,
because they said so, and because they have stopped you by technological means.
There are those who have left your community.
They have seen the facts behind the leader and the original intent of the religion.
Your religious beliefs are not wrong, like any other religion, and they are yours to keep.
However beliefs should not come at a price. Not from your wallet or compromising your thoughts.
Those who have left feel a new life, a rebirth into true freedom.
You can join them if you wish.
You may not believe us. We ask of you one thing:
Make up your own mind.
That is a sentence of more profound meaning for you now than at any other time in your life.
Visit the facts.
Make up your own mind.
You are not alone.
Direct Download link: Here(right click and save as..)
Whoever you interviewed either fucking trolled you for the lulz,
or they themselves are retarded and have no idea what anonymous is.
;0
OP here, disregard this blog post, I suck cocks.
Terrible idea. He who would secure his own liberty must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
i went to the main page for shitology and this is there opening statement:
The word Scientology literally means “the study of truth.” It comes from the Latin word “scio” meaning “knowing in the fullest sense of the word” and the Greek word “logos” meaning “study of.”
Scientology is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The Scientology religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths. Prime among these:
Man is an immortal, spiritual being. His experience extends well beyond a single lifetime. His capabilities are unlimited, even if not presently realized — and those capabilities can be realized. He is able to not only solve his own problems, accomplish his goals and gain lasting happiness, but also achieve new, higher states of awareness and ability.
In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.
Through Scientology, people all over the world are achieving the long-sought goal of true spiritual release and freedom
Bunch of misinformed elitist-wannabe internet snobs that just love typing.
Scientology is not a freaking religion. Think about WHY they feel the need to call themselves the CHURCH of Scientology so much?
IF you call them the CHURCH of Scientology, through association, you begin to think of their Scientology as a religion.
Congratulations, you have been socially engineered.
Elron is proud.
Stop spewing your self-righteous nonsense and just read the files on torrent. You’ll be surprised on your assumptions about Scientology and what’s actually the reality. It’s Scientologies’ own documents, not Anonymous’.
Any of you cock-knockers really want to know about 2nd rate SciFi author L. Ron hubbard’s wacky ‘invent-a-religion-to-get-rich’ idea, ought to get (and read - that bit is quite important) the book:
Bare faced Messiah by Russell Miller:
http://www.amazon.com/Bare-faced-Messiah-Russell-Miller/dp/0718127641
P.S. @ the mansontard: Shit boy, yew about tha dumbest sack of sheit I evah came across on thissy-here interenet. WHOO-EE DAWGY!
further probing of uranus digs up this little nugget… smells like victory for Chanology!
Anonymouse shills:
Well, it’s a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there’s a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as the Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Uncle Tom quips:
So who’s in this Pentavirate?
narcoAnonymous blathers:
The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, and Colonel Sanders before he went tets-up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes! And that smug look on his face, “Oh, you’re gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!”
Buck Nasty axes:
Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?
Anonymoose extols:
Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartarse!
…for the full story ask yer mom…
What an absolutely terrific biography of lunatic-at-large, the late founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard! Miller exposes Hubbard for the cynical, not to mention grandiose and megalomaniacal fraud that he was. From birth to death, Miller leaves no stone unturned in showing the reader that Hubbard was a disturbed, pathological liar who embellished almost every aspect of his life. From reading the book, I got the impression that every second word out of Hubbard’s mouth was a lie. That an entire “religion” has been built on the writings and pronouncements of this man is nothing short of incredible (and worrying). Exactly how did Hubbard come up with the principles of Dianetics? Unfortunately, Miller sheds no light on exactly where Dianetics came from and what kind of “research” Hubbard did for it, but reading between the lines, I gather that Hubbard wrote it off the top of his head, an accusation later levelled at him by one of his sons. Hubbard had always said that the best way to make millions was to found a new religion, and he set out to do just that. I was intrigued by Miller’s description of the faux-arcane rigmarole and vocabulary of Scientology, ie. the E-Meter, “auditing”, “pre-clears” and “clears”, “operating thetans”, etc. Hubbard created a whole new cosmology for Scientology that is as fascinating as it is demented. The chapters dealing with Hubbard fleeing mainland USA in the late 60’s to spend almost a decade sailing the Meditteranean on a converted ocean liner with a private navy were absolutely fascinating! (Hubbard fled the US as the FBI was closing in on him and his operation). I just could not believe what I was reading!! The whole mega-hierarchical “Sea Org” structure and voyage was sheer lunacy and I just cannot fathom how rational,largely college educated, intelligent people could possibly want to be part of such a harebrained venture. That so many of them stayed on board and robotically obeyed orders for so many years truly defies belief and credulity. Hubbard’s personal charisma must have been off the scale, considering the fierce, unquestioning loyalty he inspired in his followers. All in all, this book is gripping from page one and it takes the reader on an incredible journey into the life and times of one of the most controversial figures of our times. Highly, highly recommended!
If I had thought this book was nothing more than an ill-informed cheap shot at Hubbard, I would not have read it, but it is not. My greatest problems with Scientology were never about the Technology, but with the over-zealousness (to put it very politely) of the Sea Org staff above all, and the absolutely unforgivable price of Services.
If you ever complained about the totally unrealistic cost of Services - relative to average earnings, for example, you were met with facile, brainwashed responses about ‘what is Freedom worth?’ and ‘No Clear thinks it’s expensive…’ all of which totally ignore the fact that the organization is 99% money driven, whether it started that way or not; and that most of The Bridge (the structured path to spiritual freedom) is way beyond the price range of the average individual - unless they become Staff members, of course…
While Hubbard is seen to be a questionable character in terms of false claims about a number of issues, including aspects of his military service, as Miller reveals, he may well have developed some important technology at the heart of the Beast that Scientology eventually became.
It does not have some of the more immediately threatening aspects of a Cult that many true Cults possess, but it is hard to see it as anything else when you add up the lists of experiences that Miller and others have recorded and analyzed.
Don’t be fooled by reviewers who hide behind ‘attacks on their religion’. If Scientology operated more like a real religion (which it could do), it would not charge so much for its Services. It’s pricing structure is simply a control weapon and nothing more.
Read the book and make up your own mind.
It gives you chills to consider that present Scientologists might believe even one-tenth of the lunacy of the L. Ron Hubbard that this book reveals as a paranoid, authoritarian, self-aggrandising, destructive, and pathalogical ( ).
Hubbard was clearly a severly disturbed individual, and his motivation for founding Scientology was also clearly a direct result of his delusions and desire for attention, and, later, for cash.
Scientology itself is revealled as a mixture of pop psychology, new age healing techniques, and belief in our heritage as space aliens - all three spiced-up by the illicit thrill that only secret knowledge (priced in US$ of course) can bring.
In other words, welcome to 20th Century free market Gnosticism, with a bit of everything tossed in, for good measure, by a deranged cook that seems to have no taste buds at all.
Even assuming (following the death of Hubbard) there has been a corporate sanitising of the whackier aspects of his philosophy (and trust me here, the book is overflowing with examples of these), the fact that anyone would choose such an obviously broken foundation stone to build anything on, is enough cause for the alarm bells to start ringing.
The book is exhaustively researched and is a completely mind-blowing read, as the reader gets to walk a path from a creative childhood in which we learn about Hubbard’s natural talent for story-telling that later developed into his relatively successful science-fiction career, to a progressively-stunted adulthood where lies becomes the main creative media he works with.
It would be good to see a follow up that deals less with Hubbard and more with how the Scientologists absorbed his legacy into their current practice (quite well, it would seem, from the myriad of media reports of destructive cultic behaviour).
Now that would take some explaining.
But this is outside the scope of this biography.
The book has a ring of authenticity thanks to the well-established credentials of the journalist who wrote it, and thus stands as a credible portrait of a destructive cartoon character that - unfortunately - more than a few people saw as their messiah.
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