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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@ All the idiots trying to correct people by explaining what Anonymous is
Stop it you fucking idiots. You are the cancer that is killing us.
Keep up the good work anonymous!!
And who ever can should help them out.
Hmm, and we are supposed to dl some weird executable, plug in a few IP’s you give us, and let that executable TH our computers?
Get a life… a real one preferably.
~Fransw
[quote comment="273403"]lets kill these cult bastards everyone of them.
ANYBODY WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THERE IS A MAN IN THE CLOUDS LOOKING OUT FOR THEM IS A CRAZY CUNT,LOOKING TO CONFORM,TRYIN TO MAKE EVERYONE LIKE THEM.
THEY ARE ALL HOLDING BACK HUMAN EVOLUTION.[/quote]
+1
Kill the bastards!
Interviewee and possibly interviewer is an idiot and has no clue about anonymous or chans. Wtf.
[quote comment="273436"]Interviewee and possibly interviewer is an idiot and has no clue about anonymous or chans. Wtf.[/quote]
Hopefully the interviewee answered the questions like that on purpose because of all the attention Anon has been getting.
We are anonymous
We do not forgive
We do not forget
We are legion
Knowledge is free
SMALL GROUP? wtf :D
Can I Join?
I wanna join ur group of hackers, I can do more damage in my war :)
yes scientology is gay
get back to the news on torrents.
‘lets all do it for the lulz!11′
no, fuck off.
It’s good to get both sides of the argument. Here’s an interview with an anonymous member of the church of scientology.
http://www.harrynads.com/church_of_scientology_attacked_by_anonymous_forces
[quote comment="273098"]Scientology is a crazy religion but so what? So is Christianity and most others. [/quote]
Note: $cientology ™ is a company, not a religion. Their sole purpose it to make profit.
d00d, let’s steal their e-meter hardware and circuit bend it…
I would highly recommend you pull the Q&A session immediately and post the update in red at the TOP of the page, not after users have read it.
Tom Cruise FTW! LOL
i’m no fan of organized religion, but i’m not sure this will have the desired results. Scientologists already feel persecuted, this is just more proof for them and one more reason for the members to reject what outsiders have to say about them. this is common to many mainstream religions.
yes, knowledge is free. that’s why, when you google Scientology, the first link is to their website, the second is to wikipedia, the third is to “operation clambake-the inner secrets of scientology.”
that’s as it should be.
anon isnt going to drive them off the net any more than Co$ was able to shut down operation clambake and the usenet groups they tried to spam out of existence.
and here’s the thing: if this thing WERE to succeed, it’d be bad. because if we can do it to them, they can do it to us. why show them how? why make it easy for them?
the anti-scifag wing of anonymous is small. thats what they meant. the actual hacker group.
[quote comment="273399"]Who gives a shit about scientology, the other “religions” are no better, we better get rid of judaism/christianism/islamism to begin, they have killed one billion people, destroyed several civilization (including the european civilization and the current global civilization)
jesus never existed, muhammad was worst than hitler[/quote]
Other religions have been used as an excuse to commit various crimes, no doubt. But fact is the crusades, witch-burnings, the Inquisition, all that happened hundreds of years ago while Scientology is harassing people right now. Just watch this BBC documentary, its quite entertaining:
http://www.stage6.com/user/rab78/video/2099692/Scientology-and-Me
Look how the reporter is treated from the moment he dares to speak to CoS critics. Scientology is just a mixture of
1. authoritative, potentially hazardous hypnosis
2. nazi methods
3. infinite greed and
4. Tom Cruise saying none of the above is true
WHY IS DAT SUM MISINFORMATION THERE?
Misinformation is misinforming.
I am sorry to inform you all that Scientology has been permanently closed due to thetans. That is all.
this article is made of fail.
Dear torrentfreak,
You’re doing it wrong.
- anon
this “small” group is one of the largest groups on the internet.
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