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ooker variance” filed through the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire on November 23, 2005. The motion showed that Housh
had pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate copyright laws, related to creating a computer program in the summer of 2001,
which automatically searched for new software. Details about Housh’s family background were sourced from the court motion and
the section “The History and Characteristics of the Defendant.” The motion also states Housh was approached by the FBI about the
case in 2001, and that he sought to mitigate his offenses by cooperating with the Bureau “for four years.” Further details about Housh
serving three months in federal prison come from Housh’s interview with the Huffington Post in the story “Anonymous and the War
Over the Internet,” published on January 30, 2012. Housh’s age of thirty-five was also mentioned in the interview.
The factoid about 25,000 Scientologists in America in 2008 originally comes from the American Religion Identification Survey, cited in
a report by the Associated Press.
Information on the posting of internal church documents by the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology is sourced from the January 2008
Globe and Mail article “Scientology vs. the Internet, part XVII.”
The detail that XSS is the second most common hacking technique after SQL injection is sourced from the Web Hacking Incident
Database (WHID) of 2011, an online database that tracks media-reported security incidents and is led by Ryan Barnett, senior
security researcher on Trustwave’s SpiderLabs Research Team.
Details about the technical impact of Anonymous DDoS attacks on Scientology’s website come from research by Arbor Networks,
along with court documents related to Brian Mettenbrink’s case; these documents provide, among other things, the date when
Scientology hired Prolexic Technologies.
Details on LOIC come from numerous online articles about the Web application, screenshots of the interface, news reports from tech site
Gizmodo, and research from the IT security firm Imperva. Details on Praetox come from the programmer’s own website,
http://ptech.50webs.com/, which appears to have been created in 2007 but was abandoned around 2009 or 2010. The emergence of
NewEraCracker as another programmer to develop LOIC comes from details on GitHub, a Web-based hosting service for software
projects.
The anecdote that Time Warner would profit from the V for Vendetta mask comes from an August 2011 article on the New York Times
Bits blog.
The example of a channel topic in #marblecake came from a chatlog provided by Jennifer Emick’s Backtrace Security, via logs obtained
from a leak among Chanology organizers.
The vast majority of details about Brian Mettenbrink come from a phone interview conducted with him on December 16, 2011, as well
as from court documents and an FBI transcript, both of which were published on the Partyvan website. A few extra details came from
an archive started when Mettenbrink uploaded a scan of his driver’s license and photo, along with the business card of one of his
visiting FBI agents, to WhyWeProtest.net, as well as from comments in that thread made by Mettenbrink and others. Mettenbrink was
banned from using the Internet for a year after his jail sentence and, at the time of this writing, still had to receive e-mails through a
friend.
Chapter 6: Civil War
The vast majority of details about the experiences of Jennifer Emick are derived from phone interviews with Emick herself, as well as
from a few interviews conducted over Skype text chat. Extra details about the methods of intimidation used by Scientology
representatives against Anonymous protesters come from the testimony of Emick, Laurelai Bailey, various Web reports, and
YouTube videos.
Details about the life and experiences of Laurelai Bailey (formerly Wesley Bailey) come from phone interviews with Bailey herself,
along with several discussions held via Internet Relay Chat and Skype text chat.
The details of “simultaneous worldwide protests on February 10” come from Bailey’s and Emick’s own testimonies as well as from
various blog posts that reported on the events afterward. Details about playing an audio version of OT3 at protests come from
testimony by Laurelai Bailey as well as from the Der Spiegel article “Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology,” published on June
28, 2005.
The point about an alleged list of “murdered Scientology defectors” came originally from conversations with Jennifer Emick, who also
pointed me to discussions on the anti-Scientology message board ocmb.xenu.net, also known as Operation Clambake. A number of
campaigners on this board, for instance, believe that former Scientologist Ken Ogger, found dead in his swimming pool on May 29,
2007, was murdered.
The description of Chanology as “full-blown activism” comes from interviews with multiple participants in the raids and protests,
including Emick, Laurelai Bailey, and an anonymous Chanology organizer, with viewpoints split on whether the veering toward
activism was a good thing or not. The notion that Scientology “stopped coming out to play,” i.e., stopped responding defensively to
the antics of Anonymous, is sourced from testimony by Bailey and Emick, as well as from various online forums in which Chanology
is discussed, such as WhyWeProtest.net.
The rows between IRC network operators, including the quote “you have no idea who you’re fucking with,” are sourced from Emick’s
testimony, and the squabbles are also chronicled in detail on the main Partyvan website. Details of Scientology’s litigation against
Gregg Housh are sourced from various news reports, including an October 2008 article in The Inquirer entitled “Anti Scientology
Activist Off the Hook. Sort of.” Scientology’s perspective on receiving “death threats” is sourced from a CNN video from May of
2008, in which the news network’s John Roberts spoke to a Scientology spokesman who claimed that Anonymous was “terrorizing
the church.”
Details about the way Emick “outed” Bailey’s online nickname, Raziel, leading to their falling-out, come from the accounts by both
Emick and Bailey.
The information about SWATing a house comes from testimony from Emick as well as from interviews with William, who directed me
to websites that showed the steps one needs to take to “SWAT” someone.