Anonymous vs Scientology!

Invictus ChiKen · Post by **Invictus ChiKen** » 2008-01-24 07:39pm

Things are getting interesting

Maybe this will be the death of that Church?

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2008-01-24 07:44pm

If anyone can pierce the veil of anonymous, it's probably going to be scientology. They have infiltrated the FBI in the past after all. Plus, the whole prank call think seems like a silly idea to me.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-01-24 07:56pm

This looks like the video in question.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-01-24 08:11pm

Epic lulz. Needs moar exploding vans.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2008-01-24 08:17pm

Internet war is serious business.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-24 10:07pm

Hopefully /b/ will prevail in this.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2008-01-24 10:14pm

Good, then they can take the Phelpses down next. I see rumblings in the form of exactly this in the form of a half-hearted 'I wonder if maybe they could..... please?' in the comments of EVERY SINGLE POST about this the breadth of the internet.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-24 10:25pm

I found this if anyone wants to help out or is just interested in reading a first hand-account of their methods, ideas, and plans.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2008-01-24 10:41pm

Well this'll be interesting to watch. I doubt they can expel Scientology from the Internet, though it should be fascinating to see them try. My sympathies lie with Anonymous.

Also, the obligatory LOL Internet war.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-24 10:51pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Well this'll be interesting to watch. I doubt they can expel Scientology from the Internet, though it should be fascinating to see them try. My sympathies lie with Anonymous.

Also, the obligatory LOL Internet war.

I think this is going to go beyond a purely internet war. There are lists of fax and telephone numbers to hit circulating, along with names and home & business addresses. Apparently a few 'churches' have been vandalized with spraypaint, and the site I linked above has tips for sabotaging cars.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2008-01-24 11:03pm

Jadeite wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Well this'll be interesting to watch. I doubt they can expel Scientology from the Internet, though it should be fascinating to see them try. My sympathies lie with Anonymous.

Also, the obligatory LOL Internet war.
I think this is going to go beyond a purely internet war. There are lists of fax and telephone numbers to hit circulating, along with names and home & business addresses. Apparently a few 'churches' have been vandalized with spraypaint, and the site I linked above has tips for sabotaging cars.

Holy fuck, they've recruited a bunch of bored teenagers.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2008-01-24 11:06pm

Jadeite wrote: I think this is going to go beyond a purely internet war. There are lists of fax and telephone numbers to hit circulating, along with names and home & business addresses. Apparently a few 'churches' have been vandalized with spraypaint, and the site I linked above has tips for sabotaging cars.

You've never heard of /b/ or Encyclopedia Dramatica before at all, have you?

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-24 11:13pm

General Zod wrote: You've never heard of /b/ or Encyclopedia Dramatica before at all, have you?

That's a good one. I've just always missed participating in their raids in the past, unfortunately. Not this time though.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2008-01-24 11:27pm

My roommate has been watching this unfold, they actually manage to take down the scientology website for extended periods, ink out fax machines, tie up phone lines...

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2008-01-25 10:11am

Holy crap...whoever loses, we win!
I wonder if there's any way they could both end up in flames?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-01-25 11:39am

Jadeite wrote:Hopefully /b/ will prevail in this.

Would you say the same thing if their target was one of the mainstream Christian denominations?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2008-01-25 12:03pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Jadeite wrote:Hopefully /b/ will prevail in this.
Would you say the same thing if their target was one of the mainstream Christian denominations?

Goodness knows I would.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-01-25 12:14pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Jadeite wrote:Hopefully /b/ will prevail in this.
Would you say the same thing if their target was one of the mainstream Christian denominations?
Goodness knows I would.

Fuckin' A! If anyone is taking down religion, it needs to be teh Intarwebs and Anonymous.

It'd be delicious if organised religion fell to bored geeks online with a litany of crazy memes at their disposal.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-01-25 12:19pm

They're actually planning a RAID on the Hollywood Scientology Center. This is in-freaking-sane! If you'd try to sell this as a movie plot, you'd have been laughed at. "A bunch of kids on the internet declaring war on scientology? LULZ!"

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-25 12:23pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Jadeite wrote:Hopefully /b/ will prevail in this.
Would you say the same thing if their target was one of the mainstream Christian denominations?

Yes. I'm agnostic.

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2008-01-25 12:31pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:They're actually planning a RAID on the Hollywood Scientology Center.

Ain't nobody gonna be gettin' into their pool.

Well... I doubt they have a pool, there. But if they do, god-damn man. The pool is closed!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2008-01-25 12:33pm

SilverWingedSeraph wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:They're actually planning a RAID on the Hollywood Scientology Center.
Ain't nobody gonna be gettin' into their pool. Well... I doubt they have a pool, there. But if they do, god-damn man. The pool is closed!

I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2008-01-25 12:38pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
SilverWingedSeraph wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:They're actually planning a RAID on the Hollywood Scientology Center.
Ain't nobody gonna be gettin' into their pool. Well... I doubt they have a pool, there. But if they do, god-damn man. The pool is closed!
I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about.

It's probably best you don't.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2008-01-25 01:09pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
I have absolutely no idea what the hell you're talking about.

Habbo Hotel raid, I'm assuming.

Solauren · Post by **Solauren** » 2008-01-25 01:23pm

Quite frankly, Scientology now has major problems.

Unless the Hacker culture has changed since my day (which was "many moons ago", or roughly 10 years), Hackers were both very supportive/c-operative with each other, and viciously competitive.

I see 3 scenarios from the Hacker perspective occuring

#1 - (Least likely) Some hackers try to stop this to say 'lolz, I stopped the war on Scientology'
Very few sane people I know on the Internet, let along the hacker community, like Scientology. Hell, helping them might make you the next hacker target

#2 - Multiple hacker groups helping out Anonymous, in effect escalating the attacks on scientology, to the point were they literally have no choice but to abandon there presence on the Internet. At which point, odds are it will shift into technological based attacks off the Internet.

Which make's me wonder if some of the variant Phreak boxes still work now adays? Probably be limited to land line functionality, if at that.

#3 - Hacker groups will not co-operate with each other (or will in small 'alliances'), but will be competing to who can cause the longest lasting, quickest occuring, and most frequent problems for Scientology. The Scientology website might be mutated and hacked apart every time it goes back on, and it could escalate.

Then there's script-kiddies to consider as well.
To those that don't know; a Script-kiddie is a 'Wanna-be' Hacker that uses pre-defined tools (usually released by a Hacker group when they are done with them), to attack sites. i.e Denial of Service attacks, etc.
I can see script-kiddies joining this and attacking Scientology to prove they are 'L33T'

Unless something like this is crushed, and quickly, Scientology is going to have serious headaches.

This could be very interesting to watch.
Especially if Scientology has any government pull or support.

Then again, it could blow over and no one care.