Sunday, May 4, 2008

Need better aim

Via The Galloping Beaver, a declaration of war against the Church of Scientology,



Unfortunately, as with real wars, there seems to be a problem with collateral damage.

Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.

Coordination broke down Friday among the loose affiliate of online troublemakers known as Anonymous as they tried to continue their ongoing attacks against Scientology.

The group has spent the last few days trying to keep down the scientology.org website via a distributed denial of service attack, posting sensitive Scientology documents around the web, and up-voting anti-Scientology stories on Digg. The attack, dubbed Project Chanology, has a wiki that attempts to tell Anonymous 'members' what to do, though the advice is ever-changing and often contradictory.


Long story short, they hit the wrong IP address in one of their DOS attacks. Despite that, I would expect this kind of activity to grow, and as the cyber-attack on Estonia proved, the targeting can be for a myriad of reasons and far better coordinated than this one is so far.