Cyber-War on Scientology

Readers of this blog know I have forewarned about the possibility of a cyber-war. It’s happened.

Monday, a group knows as Anonymous or Legion posted a video declaring war on the Church of Scientology. It’s suspected that they are operating under the umbrella of a so-called Project Chanology. Here’s the video:

In a perfectly coordinated effort, Anonymous hacked into the Church’s website today, taking supposedly secret documents, and then shut down the website using denial of service attacks–although it has been brought back to functioning status as of this posting despite a continuing DoS onslaught. The documents, however, have been unleashed and spread across the internet.

You can download the documents here.

There are 37 PDF’s. As such, it will take some time to sift through all of them. Here are a few quick hits:

OEC7_txt.pdf

The people with money to spend are in the majority people who work. They have only week ends and evenings for avocations. People who can’t work or don’t work are almost always the rougher cases and Ethics type pcs. Hence by offering only daytime senice one gets a higher percent of rough cases and finds senice harder to deliver.

The OTs LEVELS.pdf

Pick out an object ahead of you and wrap an energy beam around it and yourself and pull yourself toward the object by shortening the beam. Notice what happens.

Auditing Series 1965-1975 1.pdf

THE ELEVENTH ACT [that an auditor shall perform] consists of running out ALL sympathy on everyone and anyone in this lifetime, every dynamic. This is done by running the sympathy as a lock for its duration over and over until the sympathy is erased. This includes sympathy for self, for every part of the body, for children, for sexual partners, for each parent, for every member of the family, for every ally, or every friend, for every group, organization, state or country, for Man in general, for matter, for energy, for space, for time, for trees and any vegetable life, for bacteria, for cells including sperm, for dogs, cats, horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, game birds, game animals, for souls, spirits, idols, clairvoyants, saints, for the Supreme being.

Like I mention above, Anonymous seems to be a part of Project Chanology. Here’s their wiki page, which talks about tactics, motives, etc. One can see from reading this site that Anonymous is clearly a collective effort. The website 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.”

The history section sheds light on their motives:

After a video interview with Tom Cruise got leaked onto YouTube, Scientology got butthurt and had the video removed. This prompted the internet at large to man the harpoons and begin an epic battle against the Scientologists to rid the planet of said scourge.

In addition, some media attention was returning to the issue because of the release of Tom Cruise: The Unofficial Biography which has chapters of Scientology bashing. The book was banned in the UK by Scientologist lawyers.

Anonymous looked at the past of Scientology with the censoring of free speech, a direct clash with our Anonymous principles of absolute free speech (pass the CP), and the lulz gathered from them even being talked to casually, and finally the batshit insane murders and such that they did, a sign of them taking the world as too much serious fucking business. Shame, looks like they just have to go.

This isn’t being covered by the mainstream media. It should be: Anonymous is a seminal moment in web history. We have seen the first internet insurgency. Hackers have always existed, but never before have they used mass communication and distribution against their targets–to say nothing of their level of organization.

Project Chanology has set an incredible precedent: Internet users coming together to launch a web based attack. We’ll see where this goes though. “So far, it’s the Internet: 1, Scientology: 0. But it’s a long game” said Matthew Ingram. He’s right, I believe the game has just begun.

Be warned RIAA, MPAA, AT&T, and Comcast: You’re next.