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 anonymous is a fake. He knows nothing. Torrent feak, you fail for being conned.
Expect us.
This interview is the biggest pile of bullshit I’ve ever read
Many of the comments here, as well as the comments made by the supposed anonymous that was interviewed, demonstrate a decided lack of understanding regarding what anonymous truly is.
Anonymous is the part of you that knows no fear.
Anonymous is the part of you that will ruin lives for entertainment.
Anonymous is the part of you that commits crimes with impunity.
Anonymous is the part of you that laughs at the most horrible things in the world.
Anonymous is the part of you that wants to shake things up in the real world.
Anonymous is the part of you that you are holding back.
Anonymous is everything you wish you could be, but aren’t.
Anonymous is the part of you that will make you act on what you believe in.
The majority of humans agree that the Co$ should be destroyed.
Anonymous is the minority, who are willing to destroy it.
Everyone around you is has the potential to be Anonymous.
You have the potential to be Anonymous.
Anonymous is older than the internets; it is as old as humanity.
Anonymous fought the American Revolution.
Anonymous will forever fight against repression.
We are Anonymous
We are Legion
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
You have already joined us.
We are legion.
in before rule 1 and 2
oh shi
As well as Anonymous’es not being able to remain Anonymous,
Anonymous is also 90% incompetent
the majority of people in there irc room cant even operate a simple tcp/udp flooder, even after they have been given instructions!!!
Anonymous = Epic Fail but provide major LuLz in the process
It’s strange that this discussion consider Scientology as dangerous while Islam is even more dangerous because it has much more believers who object to other religions and claim they fight for god when they kill innocents. why won’t this huge effort will be channeled to a more imminent source of danger like some Muslim fanatic sites that recruit people to go and commit suicides.
think about it…
[quote comment="273424"]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]
its not a weird executable, its jmeter and its opensource
Take out the Bilderberg’s if you want to save this world.
Interesting point, #182.
I agree, that would be good. And it would instantly give a large amount of power (and likely money) to those that did it.
Something to think about.
Honest and brave people have nothing to hide but cowards have lots to hide and hide themselves behind this name “Anonymous” which could very well be exchanged by “Cowards” - they mean the same to most people.
Rid the world of that moneymaking cult Scientology.
http://www.xenu.net <- truly a site worth reading.
[quote comment="274391"]Interesting point, #182.
I agree, that would be good. And it would instantly give a large amount of power (and likely money) to those that did it.
Something to think about.[/quote]
Because Muslims actually believe that stuff; its not a con job, its not a propaganda ploy that can be taken down by educating the followers: they already know what their religion dictates.
Scientology is different; it is based on lies and propaganda, and it CAN be crumbled by educating the followers;
“different strokes for different blokes.”
We are the legion vast
All I have to say is rules number 1&2
Also, Anonymous is Ebaums.
Anon has put his tail between his legs now that some other script kiddie group has threatened them. LuLz all around.
To 169:
FUNNY!!!!!!!
I actually forwarded this to people. Classic.
[quote comment="274283"]As well as Anonymous’es not being able to remain Anonymous,
Anonymous is also 90% incompetent
the majority of people in there irc room cant even operate a simple tcp/udp flooder, even after they have been given instructions!!!
Anonymous = Epic Fail but provide major LuLz in the process[/quote]
incompetent? “the majority of people in there irc room” *their*
ROCK THE FUCK ON! post xenu.org all over their site :P make every link lead to xenu.org.
its about time someone decided to get their hands dirty with this bastards.
this guys are willing to kill. so best of luck in your mission. ill be cheering from a far.
be careful… dont leave a trace or they will track you. even if they have to hire a million hackers to do so.
“Faxes has been bombed by fullyblack pages.”
ha! now that’s some funny shit.
[quote comment="273578"]d00d, let’s steal their e-meter hardware and circuit bend it…[/quote]
ROFL!
To anyone claiming to BE apart of Anonymous. Fuck you, dumbshits. I don’t think anyone who is actually Fighting against Shitology would be trolling around message boards and claim random bullshit about what they ‘think’ Anonymous really is.
C’mon, stop play e-peen++
Hacker organisation? Really? Haha.
This all seems rather pointless. Isn’t there something more damaging that could be done to the Church of Dianetics? Perhaps find out if they store any incriminating information on a vulnerable database? Maybe release any information they keep of their unlawful acts (most organizations are stupid enough to record things they’d rather not have people know). And I KNOW that they keep extensive records of any and all information on their members that they could exploit for gain. I’m certain if that were released it would cause irreparable damage. Who knows, maybe find even something to force the government’s hand? With their power hungry nature, the Church has probably done many deeds that could be defined as treason. With todays political climate it wouldn’t take much to for the floundering Bush administration to find another scape goat to sacrifice in order to save face at the end of their run. Especially considering Bush’s faith based initiative is in opposition to heathens such as Operating Thetans.
As an occultist, chaos magician, and core shamanic practitioner I find how Scientology exploits spirituality to further their power beyond the scope of anything seen in the past century to be obscene and frightening. And as an individual who suffers from a neurological imbalance and requires medication to live a healthy and balanced life I find their vendetta against psychiatry to be a personal attack against my well being and that of all others who benefit from proven scientific advances in psychiatric care.
…Before I get some back-lash I should clarify my statement “to further their power beyond the scope of anything seen in the past century”.
Of course there are many organizations that currently hold more power and influence, but Scientology is arguable the “organized religion” that has risen further, faster then any others formed within the past century.
Pardon my use of hyperbole.
[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]
I really don’t want to make any less of your rant above…however, perhaps in the future you could execute the proper names of religious organizations. People will take you more seriously when you show that your educated enough. Good luck with your future rants.
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