"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." --Wired blogs

Well, Anonymous of *chan fame has declared war against the Church of Scientology.  Hmm.   This should turn out to be interesting.

And to follow that meme – TRWTF® is Tom Cruise. 

Edit: Oops, I forgot the article link. 

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/anonymous-attac.html 

Ebaum's World did it 

redct:

"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." --Wired blogs

I hope those badass troublemakers will pwn Scientology hard and tell them to gtfo.

# The Brillant Paula Bean
# Author::    derula
# Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Paula Bean
# License::   Originally distributed under a
#             proprietary license by Paula Bean.
#             Ruby port by derula published
#             under the same terms as Ruby's.

# This module provides a method to return the
# brillance of Paula Bean. This can be achieved
# by calling the module method get_paula.
module Paula_Bean

  # This constant stores the essence of Paula
  # Bean's brillance. This is a private
  # constant, so you MAY NOT use
  # Paula_Bean::PAULA to access it! Please use
  # the get_paula method instead.
  PAULA = "Brillant"

  # Returns Paula Bean's brillance.
  def self.get_paula
    return PAULA
  end
end

That's realy mysterious! I often ran in this "Anonymous"-People everytime i try to login on some FTP-Servers at work.
They definitively must be evil!

 

TRWTF is Scientology itself, imho.

I just reported all you blasphemers for my $5000 a head reward, now I can pay my entrance fees :¬)  It's rough and tumble and it's wild and woolly and it's a blast, Scientology, oh ye-err!

 We. Are. LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

What I find the most funny is how nowadays the media loves to describe as "hackers" anyone that participates in such complex computer terrorism activities as "setting isAdmin=true in the query string", "changing hotlinked picture on own server" or "using gigaloader".

I liked it more when hackers were portrayed as cyberpunk rollerbladers. :(

redct:

"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." --Wired blogs

Is it just me, or does it sound like they're DDoSing it?

Tann San:

I just reported all you blasphemers for my $5000 a head reward, now I can pay my entrance fees :¬)  It's rough and tumble and it's wild and woolly and it's a blast, Scientology, oh ye-err!

 

Writing a bot right now to start reporting 127.0.0.1.

I feel it is my civic duty.

rbowes:

redct:

"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." --Wired blogs

Is it just me, or does it sound like they're DDoSing it?

 

That is what it looks like, but likely the reporter doesn't know what the hell that is or what it's supposed to do.  Surprising considering it's a tech blog.

 Butt kicking for goodness!!!

Its about time someone fought back! 

MasterPlanSoftware:

Tann San:

I just reported all you blasphemers for my $5000 a head reward, now I can pay my entrance fees :¬)  It's rough and tumble and it's wild and woolly and it's a blast, Scientology, oh ye-err!

 

Writing a bot right now to start reporting 127.0.0.1.

I feel it is my civic duty.

 

I second that... We just need to write a worm that would tunnel though ToR and spam that server (say 1 email a day from everyone infected) with 127.0.0.1... Ah this would be fun.

dlikhten:

Butt kicking for goodness!!!

Its about time someone fought back!

I've never noticed they are fighting us. I thought that was required to be able to fight back...

# The Brillant Paula Bean
# Author::    derula
# Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Paula Bean
# License::   Originally distributed under a
#             proprietary license by Paula Bean.
#             Ruby port by derula published
#             under the same terms as Ruby's.

# This module provides a method to return the
# brillance of Paula Bean. This can be achieved
# by calling the module method get_paula.
module Paula_Bean

  # This constant stores the essence of Paula
  # Bean's brillance. This is a private
  # constant, so you MAY NOT use
  # Paula_Bean::PAULA to access it! Please use
  # the get_paula method instead.
  PAULA = "Brillant"

  # Returns Paula Bean's brillance.
  def self.get_paula
    return PAULA
  end
end

But ... they're the only ones that can help us! 

Either way ... 

I've canceled that in my area (laughs maniacally)

 

MasterPlanSoftware:

Tann San:

I just reported all you blasphemers for my $5000 a head reward, now I can pay my entrance fees :¬)  It's rough and tumble and it's wild and woolly and it's a blast, Scientology, oh ye-err!

 

Writing a bot right now to start reporting 127.0.0.1.

I feel it is my civic duty.

The funny thing is, if you read some of the docs on operation clambake, they went after a guy who wrote on usenet "I have a bunch of CoS docs, they're hosted on my server at 127.0.0.1!" Surprise surprise, some CoS troll read that, went to 127.0.0.1, and wow, there's all sorts of crazy shit!

At least they dealt with it in arbitration and didn't try and sue the fuck out of him anyway.

 Aaahh,Scientology. The near-perfect combination of bogus religion and pyramid selling scam...

I'd rather have the DoJ declare "war" on scientology. Scientology's own propaganda encourages murder of their critics. Anyone not prepared to defend themselves against lethal attacks would be unprepared.

 Someone needs to tell scientoligist to RTFB (Read The Fucking Bible).

I'm down to write a bot to spam the reward webserver, sourceforge project anyone?

Nether:

Anyone not prepared to defend themselves against lethal attacks would be unprepared.

 

Thank you Captain.  

elgate:

Nether:

Anyone not prepared to defend themselves against lethal attacks would be unprepared.

 

Thank you Captain.  

 

 

You're welcome ensign. Now put on your red shirt. You've been assigned to the landing party. 

Update: take a look at digg and you can find most of their documents. :P

I vote for throwing porridge at them.

William Tell is not Anonymous. Though shooting at the Scientologists, they accidentally managed to bring down a Dutch school. (Oh well, they also brainwash.) http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/anonymous-hacke.html

kaamoss:

 Someone needs to tell scientoligist to RTFB (Read The Fucking Bible).

I'm down to write a bot to spam the reward webserver, sourceforge project anyone?

Uh, no they don't. There's hardly much difference in insanity between the bible and scientology doctrine... (P.S. EbaumsWorld is legion)

 

ehird:

Uh, no they don't. There's hardly much difference in insanity between the bible and scientology doctrine... (P.S. EbaumsWorld is legion)

I've read parts of the Bible, I've read parts of Dianetics. The former is full of good stories and reads rather well (and never mind whether it's 'true'). The latter is a load of pseudoscientific babbling, and far less fun to read.