{"id":716,"date":"2008-02-10T23:51:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2008-02-10T23:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:51:12","slug":"feb-10-anon-vs-lron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Feb 10: Anon vs Lron"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more fascinating things going on webwards right now is the Anonymous vs. Scientology war. In a nutshell: anonymous hacker network wages PR and tech war on Church of Scientology. Their infoclearinghouse is at Xenu.net<\/a>, you’re one-stop shop for creepy truths about scientology.
\nThe opening salvo was a massive denial-of-service attack on Scientology servers (where you overload them with fake traffic so they can’t handle legit traffic), and the next big moment was today, Feb 10, a global day of in-person action outside Scientology offices.
\nProject Chanology<\/a> has the scoop. Very small demos happened at Christchurch and Auckland, according to this page; other parts of the world are still waiting for the designated time to arrive as I write.
\nThis is fascinating on lots of levels. One of them that appeals to me is how the Anonymous collective is perhaps the only organisation really capable of attacking Scientology. The Church of Scientology has some scary-smart people running its operations, and they are very skilled at making end-runs around legal systems and outmaneuvering attacks that come through normal channels. Some countries have had successes but it’s just plain hard to go for the throat – the Church of Scientology people have a long track record of very intimidating responses to unfriendly coverage by journalists, in particular.
\nAnonymous, however, isn’t reachable by any of the means the CoS can usually deploy. It isn’t a real organisation; it really is just a really big network of anonymous geek dudes. And that’s anonymous to each other as well – there are no real identities in play here. It is a group with no hierarchy, no structure, no social links, no membership. It is almost an anti-group.
\nThe flipside of this, of course, is that Anonymous is so loose and amorphous that it’s hard for it to turn itself to real action. The Feb 10 demos are a case in point. In less than 24 hours it’ll be apparent whether Anon is a real force or just a worthy attempt; either way, there are big signs of the future to be read in what happens.
\nI hope Anon pulls it off, though I doubt they’ll manage much. Scientology is very, very screwed up and anything that starts hammering away at that is fine by me. (Also, Tom Cruise is gay, and his attempts to change his orientation led him to Scientology where he has convinced himself he is in fact straight. Doesn’t that explain pretty much everything about that guy?)
\nEDIT: pics are up from Sydney<\/a>
\nEDIT 2: Account of London demo.<\/a> Five hundred people? Whitechapel’s discussion thread<\/a> is all worth a look actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more fascinating things going on webwards right now is the Anonymous vs. Scientology war. In a nutshell: anonymous hacker network wages PR and tech war on Church of Scientology. Their infoclearinghouse is at Xenu.net, you’re one-stop shop for creepy truths about scientology. The opening salvo was a massive denial-of-service attack on Scientology … Continue reading Feb 10: Anon vs Lron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-by","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}