Toprem
01-24-08, 10:57 PM
For those unaware of what's been going on for a couple of days now, Anonymous has been spearheading a massive assault against the Church of Scientology via DoS attacks and has been spreading out documents that CoS does not want made available to the public. Since the start of this, several other boards have joined in on the fun to do their part against the scourge of Scientology.
http://www.knbc.com/news/15132220/detail.html?dl=mainclick
Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology
POSTED: 4:30 pm PST January 24, 2008
UPDATED: 7:13 pm PST January 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- An anonymous group of hackers, fittingly known as "Anonymous," has declared war on the Church of Scientology.
Video
In a video posted on YouTube on Monday, the group appears to be upset over the way the church tried to eliminate a video of Tom Cruise from the Internet.
"We shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the church of scientology in its present form," says the video's narrator. "We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not
forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
The Cruise video in question made headlines last week after copies continued to surface on the Net. In the video, Cruise praises Scientology's virtues and speaks in great detail about the religion. He discusses his faith while the soundtrack to his "Mission: Impossible" films plays in the background.
In the video, which was made in 2004, Cruise said, "There is nothing better than ... going out there and fighting the fight and, suddenly you see, things are better."
Editors at celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com said that the video was posted Monday on YouTube.com but quickly removed. Since then, more copies have surfaced.
The "Anonymous" video claims the attack is for the good of mankind.
"Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed, for the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment," says the video's narrator.
The church said the video was an internal production and meant for members of Scientology.
A Web site set up for the project directs members to download denial of service software that bombards Scientology.org with fake requests, slowing it down.
The site also urges members to make prank calls, publicize Scientology documents the church considers proprietary and fax endless loops of black pages to the church's fax machines to waste ink.
This is not the first time the Church of Scientology has dealt with a denial of service campaign. ReligiousFreedomWatch.org once offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to prior threats.
Transcript Of 'Anonymous' Video
"Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous. Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent, your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us.
Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet, and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form.
We recognize you as serious opponents, and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame; however, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, and the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.
You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere. You will find no recourse in attack because for each of us that falls, 10 more will take his place
We are cognizant of the many who may decry our methods as parallel to those of the Church of Scientology. Those who espouse the obvious truth that your organization will use the actions of Anonymous as an example of the persecution of which you have for so long warned your followers. This is acceptable to anonymous. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs. Over time, as we begin to merge our pulse with that of your church, the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will become aware that salvation needn't come at the expense of their livelihood. They will become aware that the stress and frustration that they feel is not due to us, but a source much closer to them.
Yes, we are SPs, but the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of your own RTC.
Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
Expect us."
This is some of the best stuff on the net right now, I am amazed to see this many people pooling together to try and make a dent in that ****ing cult.
The open letter:
Open Letter to Scientology by Anonymous
”Dear 'Church' of Scientology leadership, by now you have certainly become aware of us and our actions.
We have commenced our assault upon your institution and would like to take this moment to enlighten you.
We are Anonymous, you might know think of us as merely a hacker group, but we are much more. We are the
protectors of knowledge, we are the 'internet hate machine'. We stand for great justice, we stand for truth. We
embody the most fundamental principles of freedom: the right to ask questions, the right to knowledge and
the right to dissent. Your church caught our eye a long time ago, with your misinformation, your
brainwashing and inability to face your critics. We have waited long to act but have finally chosen the time,
not because this time is special but because it amused us the most.
The average scientologist: do not fear Anonymous. Do not hate us. We are on your side, we are on the side of
truth. We are not here to persecute you, we are here for your liberation. Over the years, it is unlikely you
could have missed the information about your church which has flooded the internet. The secrect documents,
the reports of wrong doing and the tales of abuse and brainwashing. Has the constant cover up of these acts
by your church ever made you sit and think – What if I am in the wrong? After hearing your church
leadership's censorship attempts and damage control, have you ever followed up yourself to find out the
truth behind the information? Behind all the allegations? Have you ever, in your religion which prides itself
on providing answers, ever asked a question about its validity? Whenever in history access to knowledge has
been removed, Anonymous has provided it. Had there never been dissent from the collective concience of
everybody and of nobody at the same time would still be thinking the sun orbited the earth. Why have you,
the average scientologist, never asked the obvious questions for the betterment of your whole community?
Why do you fear to find out the truth? Anonymous does not fear, we wish to aid you in your struggle for the
ultimate truth about your own institution, to expose it for its lies.
We do not wish for you to live in fear of your leaders. Fearing they'll run off with 200million of your money
in the way of LRH, fearing you'll face the fate of many of those who have tried to leave or tried to destroy
your institution from the inside. Why do you think you church has covered up and never talked to its
members about some cases which truly made its methods public? Cases like Lisa McPherson, Josephus A.
Havenith and the famour Jeremy Perkins? The right questions are not being asked – but now, with the help
of Anonymous is the time to ask those questions.
Anonymous respects the efforts of critics such as Jeff Jacobsen and scientology's other enemies, big and
small. However, recognize that this is the 21st century. Your methods are admirable and have achieved much
and you deserve all the praise anon can deliver, but our beliefs in how this must be handled differ.
Anonymous feels that sometimes, to get the attention of someone you must punch them in the face. Fools are
the media who think the first parts of our attack were more than attention grabbers. Our mission is to
eradicate scientology, for them to revoke their ways and to disband. Do you honestly think us so naive we
believe a mere flood of DDoS attacks would do anything more than stir the hornets nest? No. Our true
means of destroying the CoS are beyond that. Information is our weapon. We want to make sure that there is
no doubt in the mind of any of the followers of the CoS what their church hides from them, what their church
does and what their church really stands for.
CoS members, we bid you ask yourselves this question:
Has the Church of Scientology really provided you with answers, or merely skewed the question?
We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget”
Edit: another news site picked the story up http://video.nbc11.com/player/?id=209221
Here's an interesting video about the crap that they do http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-126281853779690652.
Currently it seems at least seven of their eight target sites are down http://www.lightpostawareness.com/, the main site for scientology (not currently on that list) seems to be one hard one to topple, it's not stayed down for long but has been knocked down a few times.
http://www.knbc.com/news/15132220/detail.html?dl=mainclick
Hacker Group Declares War On Scientology
POSTED: 4:30 pm PST January 24, 2008
UPDATED: 7:13 pm PST January 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- An anonymous group of hackers, fittingly known as "Anonymous," has declared war on the Church of Scientology.
Video
In a video posted on YouTube on Monday, the group appears to be upset over the way the church tried to eliminate a video of Tom Cruise from the Internet.
"We shall proceed to expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the church of scientology in its present form," says the video's narrator. "We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not
forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
The Cruise video in question made headlines last week after copies continued to surface on the Net. In the video, Cruise praises Scientology's virtues and speaks in great detail about the religion. He discusses his faith while the soundtrack to his "Mission: Impossible" films plays in the background.
In the video, which was made in 2004, Cruise said, "There is nothing better than ... going out there and fighting the fight and, suddenly you see, things are better."
Editors at celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com said that the video was posted Monday on YouTube.com but quickly removed. Since then, more copies have surfaced.
The "Anonymous" video claims the attack is for the good of mankind.
"Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed, for the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment," says the video's narrator.
The church said the video was an internal production and meant for members of Scientology.
A Web site set up for the project directs members to download denial of service software that bombards Scientology.org with fake requests, slowing it down.
The site also urges members to make prank calls, publicize Scientology documents the church considers proprietary and fax endless loops of black pages to the church's fax machines to waste ink.
This is not the first time the Church of Scientology has dealt with a denial of service campaign. ReligiousFreedomWatch.org once offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to prior threats.
Transcript Of 'Anonymous' Video
"Hello, leaders of Scientology. We are Anonymous. Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation, your suppression of dissent, your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who have come to trust you as leaders has been made clear to us.
Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment, we shall proceed to expel you from the Internet, and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form.
We recognize you as serious opponents, and do not expect our campaign to be completed in a short time frame; however, you will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, and the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.
You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere. You will find no recourse in attack because for each of us that falls, 10 more will take his place
We are cognizant of the many who may decry our methods as parallel to those of the Church of Scientology. Those who espouse the obvious truth that your organization will use the actions of Anonymous as an example of the persecution of which you have for so long warned your followers. This is acceptable to anonymous. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs. Over time, as we begin to merge our pulse with that of your church, the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will become aware that salvation needn't come at the expense of their livelihood. They will become aware that the stress and frustration that they feel is not due to us, but a source much closer to them.
Yes, we are SPs, but the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of your own RTC.
Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
Expect us."
This is some of the best stuff on the net right now, I am amazed to see this many people pooling together to try and make a dent in that ****ing cult.
The open letter:
Open Letter to Scientology by Anonymous
”Dear 'Church' of Scientology leadership, by now you have certainly become aware of us and our actions.
We have commenced our assault upon your institution and would like to take this moment to enlighten you.
We are Anonymous, you might know think of us as merely a hacker group, but we are much more. We are the
protectors of knowledge, we are the 'internet hate machine'. We stand for great justice, we stand for truth. We
embody the most fundamental principles of freedom: the right to ask questions, the right to knowledge and
the right to dissent. Your church caught our eye a long time ago, with your misinformation, your
brainwashing and inability to face your critics. We have waited long to act but have finally chosen the time,
not because this time is special but because it amused us the most.
The average scientologist: do not fear Anonymous. Do not hate us. We are on your side, we are on the side of
truth. We are not here to persecute you, we are here for your liberation. Over the years, it is unlikely you
could have missed the information about your church which has flooded the internet. The secrect documents,
the reports of wrong doing and the tales of abuse and brainwashing. Has the constant cover up of these acts
by your church ever made you sit and think – What if I am in the wrong? After hearing your church
leadership's censorship attempts and damage control, have you ever followed up yourself to find out the
truth behind the information? Behind all the allegations? Have you ever, in your religion which prides itself
on providing answers, ever asked a question about its validity? Whenever in history access to knowledge has
been removed, Anonymous has provided it. Had there never been dissent from the collective concience of
everybody and of nobody at the same time would still be thinking the sun orbited the earth. Why have you,
the average scientologist, never asked the obvious questions for the betterment of your whole community?
Why do you fear to find out the truth? Anonymous does not fear, we wish to aid you in your struggle for the
ultimate truth about your own institution, to expose it for its lies.
We do not wish for you to live in fear of your leaders. Fearing they'll run off with 200million of your money
in the way of LRH, fearing you'll face the fate of many of those who have tried to leave or tried to destroy
your institution from the inside. Why do you think you church has covered up and never talked to its
members about some cases which truly made its methods public? Cases like Lisa McPherson, Josephus A.
Havenith and the famour Jeremy Perkins? The right questions are not being asked – but now, with the help
of Anonymous is the time to ask those questions.
Anonymous respects the efforts of critics such as Jeff Jacobsen and scientology's other enemies, big and
small. However, recognize that this is the 21st century. Your methods are admirable and have achieved much
and you deserve all the praise anon can deliver, but our beliefs in how this must be handled differ.
Anonymous feels that sometimes, to get the attention of someone you must punch them in the face. Fools are
the media who think the first parts of our attack were more than attention grabbers. Our mission is to
eradicate scientology, for them to revoke their ways and to disband. Do you honestly think us so naive we
believe a mere flood of DDoS attacks would do anything more than stir the hornets nest? No. Our true
means of destroying the CoS are beyond that. Information is our weapon. We want to make sure that there is
no doubt in the mind of any of the followers of the CoS what their church hides from them, what their church
does and what their church really stands for.
CoS members, we bid you ask yourselves this question:
Has the Church of Scientology really provided you with answers, or merely skewed the question?
We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget”
Edit: another news site picked the story up http://video.nbc11.com/player/?id=209221
Here's an interesting video about the crap that they do http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-126281853779690652.
Currently it seems at least seven of their eight target sites are down http://www.lightpostawareness.com/, the main site for scientology (not currently on that list) seems to be one hard one to topple, it's not stayed down for long but has been knocked down a few times.