[Infowarrior] - Hackers v. Scientology

[Richard Forno]

War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One
By Ryan Singel EmailJanuary 23, 2008 | 2:16:38 PMCategories: Hacks and
Cracks  

A loose confederation of online troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous
have declared war on the Church of Scientology by flooding its servers with
fake data requests, describing the attacks as punishment for the Church's
alleged abuse of copyright laws and alleged brainwashing of its members.

Anonymous congregates on the net at various hangouts such as 711chan.org
(NSFW) and partyvan.info and sundry IRC channels. The group usually amuses
itself by stealing passwords to downloading sites and finding ways to harass
online communities that its members disdain. They were last seen on THREAT
LEVEL when a Los Angeles Fox News affiliate ran a story that hilariously
implied the group's arsenal included exploding vans.

The attack on Scientology, which Anonymous has dubbed Project Chanology,
started in recent days, set off by the Church's most recent attempt to
censor the internet by forcing sites to remove a creepy Tom Cruise
Scientology video. A wiki set up for the project directs Anonymous members
to download and use denial of service software, make prank calls, host
Scientology documents the Church considers proprietary, and fax endless
loops of black pages to the Church's fax machines to waste ink.

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