Pending posts and postulations on the future of Cyber Warfare

While I'm pondering out my plans to upgrade my electronics, I'm also busy brainstorming what I want my next post to be about.

How about mixing religion, technology, politics, and military matters? What the heck do all these things have in common? How can all these topics possibly be condensed into one single post topic?

Funny you ask.

You see, right now there is a bit of a cyber war going on. Its being perpetuated as a battle between a loose alliance of online hackers known as Anonymous vs the Church of Scientology. The battle is cyber in nature, seeing as how it first started online, the "first shots were fired" when hackers dragged down the COS websites, and has recently spilled into real life via mass public demonstrations and peaceful protests.

So of course you have the Cyber side of the story, A mass group of computer users trying to shut down the COS online capabilitiies.
You have the religious angle, the COS claiming that they are being harassed due to thier religion. You have the tech aspect, how the hackers manage to run these attacks and coordinate the global protests and information campaign,
you have the political aspect from how both sides run info and propaganda campaigns. The COS requests that the government do more to punish "Cyber crime" while Anonymous requests the government investigate COS and pull their tax exempt status for religious education.
The military aspect is simple. How far will this 'cyber war' go? Will it lead to other cyber wars? Will the Church of Scientology manage to push the government into reinforcing its overwatch and policing of the internet? Will Anonymous attempt to declare war on other organizations that it does not agree with? How will this effect the face and nature of cyberwarfare? A relatively new and yet potent landscape where not just nations, but anyone with a laptop and a little bit of knowledge and can strike at thier foes?

I'm still pulling my research. But until then, I hunted this video down. Its the original declaration of war posted by Anonymous against the Church of Scientology.