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Why The Sporgery Ended

A great deal more could be noted about the subject here in the extant article, including the fact that one of the participants in the alt.religion.scientology forum had been working as part of the group of so-called "Rabbit Hunters" working with the security departments of Internet Service Providers to identify and shut down the sporgers, and had managed to get the computer attacks stopped by bringing evidence of who was allegedly committing the crimes to the FBI.

Information had been accumulated and placed in a series of folders called "Green Folders" in to which paper documents collected world wide about the alleged criminal activities of the sporgers was placed, including forged Money Orders purchased at United States Post Offices which made the purchase of said Money Orders a felony inasmuch as the Money Orders were purchased at Federal facilities for the express purpose of committing computer crimes.

The Rabbit Hunter met with an FBI Field Office in Southern California and left a copy of the Green Folders with the FBI after offering descriptions of the illegal computer activities -- which the FBI was already aware of, having a presence in the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup -- yet the FBI lacked detailed information such as IP addresses, date and times, and transcripts of discussions with ISP security departments, as well as lacked the physical evidence from Money Orders purchased at U. S. Post Offices which were conveyed from ISPs to the Rabbit Hunters in sealed plastic bags to retain latent fingerprints.

It was believed at the time in a.r.s that a Texas FBI Agent named Blevins was possibly feeding information to the Scientology organization about the investigations taking place related to these computer crimes since someone allegedly within the FBI allegedly informed the Scientology criminal enterprise that the identity of some of their operators were obtained along with physical criminal evidence, and along with written statements by ISR victims noting that they would testify and cooperate with law enforcement officers were indictments brought. (Many ISPs were forced to disconnect Usenet for months to stop the Usenet floods which denied their customers access to Usenet.)

It was suspected that allegedly the Scientology organization ordered their people to stop the crimes the day after the Green Folders were handed to the FBI in Southern California, prompting a.r.s investigators to suspect a leak in the FBI. The FBI knew that the evidence of the crimes had been handed over yet the Rabbit Hunters had not made any public statement of the fact, so a leak was suspected when the sporgery abruptly stopped the next day.

A year or so after the Sporgery crimes ended, one of the people who allegedly assisted Scientology people to commit the alleged crimes came forward, code named Tory Magoo a.k.a. Tory Christman. Christman noted that she was unaware what the Money Orders she was ordered to purchase for Scientology were to be used for and she noted that her computer skills were such that she would have been unlikely to understand what Scientology's people were allegedly doing with the Money Orders -- to allegedly purchase Internet access fraudulently, to attack those computers by pumping millions of Sporgeries in to alt.religion.scientology.

It is not known whether legitimate Federal law enforcement agents bothered to instigate an official criminal investigation or whether the Scientology criminal enterprise successfully blocked any such investigation. What is known is that the sporging of newsgroups other than alt.religion.scientology was done in an effort to make some people believe that it was a form of computer attack that involved discussion forums other than forums that discussed alleged Scientology crimes. It wasn't; sporgery was only directed at the a.r.s newsgroup, and the few meager attacks in other newsgroups which took place for very brief periods of time unsuccessfully attempted to make it seem as though Scientology was not involved.

I should add that this is all my opinions only, and only my opinions, and add that my memories of events surrounding the sporgery attacks on computers across the United States may be mistaken.

For purposes of the extant article, I might tag Christman to see if she is willing to collaborate her involvement in these sporgery attacks and see if there are suitable references and citations from interviews with legitimate news outlets she may have offered. SoftwareThing (talk) 01:16, 23 September 2024 (UTC)