Otter's Journal: Anti-Scientology Hackers Harass, Threaten Random Bystanders

The collection of script kiddies who "declared war" on the Church of Scientology last week instead harassed and threatened a California couple they mistook for one of their adversaries. An "Anonymous" spokesh4x0r apologized, setting off a lively debate between dueling cliques of hackers, joined by Scientologists. In hindsight, "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" seems like an odd omission from the tags on the original story here.

Another case...

[johndiii]

There's a comment here [slashdot.org] that links another one of their actions. The target provoked them some, but they really went beyond the bounds of what was appropriate.

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[Otter]

1) re your link: the notion that the target of their pathetic "hack" has a "heightened sense of self-importance" seems a bit, errr, projective.

2) re Scientology: the anti-Scientologists always invoke the horrible attacks of Scientologists on others as justification for their own acts. Which may be true, but reading these stories I always can't help noting who is actually stalking whom. In any case, as the Wired link demonstrates, vigilantism probably shouldn't be left to complete retards like this bunch.