This Means War

We are currently seeing the first example I know of non-states-based internet warfare. The group Anonymous has declared war on the Church of Scientology and have been hitting the CoS's online assets hard. The first I heard of it was this creepy-yet-awesome propaganda video released by Anonymous:

Digg is full of stories about this:

What part will you play in the war on Scientology?
Internet group declares war on Scientology
Gawker's Guide to the War on Scientology

Updates on the war have been appearing here. Last I looked, most of the Scientology websites were down due to attacks. Additionally, Anonymous has been posting all kinds of crazy Tom Cruise-related videos and Scientology propaganda videos in the usual channels. CoS has something taken down, they pop it back up somewhere else like a digital game of wack-a-mole.

We are living the future right now. There is a massive, distributed, uncoordinated attack on an entity occurring right now. In the 90s, we would have called this "CYBER-WAR!" or something similarly hokey.

I don't know about you, but I am completely fascinated. The future is never what we expect, and almost always stranger.