Dmitriy Guzner vs Scientology
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Three days before his 20th birthday, Dmitriy Guzner was looking at up to two-and-half years in jail and amost $119,000 in fines after pleading guilty to “unauthorized impairment of a protected computer” —-
—- a Cult of Scientology computer.
“In January 2008, online hackers launched a massive attack on the Church of Scientology`s websites, forcing the church to hire computer security experts to reinstate its online presence,” says nj.com.
In the end, only one Guzner, from Verona, New Jersey, “caught the attention of federal authorities after a YouTube video of a protest of the Church of Scientology in New York City identified one of the participants — the individual in the center — as ‘Aendy,’ which is also Guzner’s online handle,”says the story, going on:
“According to the Anonymous website whyweprotest.net, the group was upset by the church`s attempts to suppress a leaked promotional video featuring actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise, who made enthusiastic claims about the religion.”
“I think they were relying on a very simple premise, that the number of people arrested and convicted of these kinds of attacks is very low,” said Jose Nazario, manager of security research at Arbor Networks, which helps companies keep their websites secure.
| Video from Scientology raid in New York by the group Anonymous |
The FBI and US Secret Service, as part of the Electronic Crimes Task Force in Los Angeles, “worked together to identify Aendy as Guzner,”says nj.com, continuing, “They searched his home in Brooklyn and turned up a Guy Fawkes mask.”
Prosecutors “have recommended Guzner be sentenced to 12 months to 18 months with no chance of parole, followed by two to three years of probation,” says nj.com adding:
“Three weeks ago, a second man was charged in connection with the DDoS attack. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Brian Thomas Mettenbrink on charges of conspiracy and transmission of a code, information, program or command to a protected computer. The 20-year-old is accused of participating in the attack from his Iowa State University dorm room, according to the indictment.
“In March 2008, before his arrest, Guzner posted on an online message board a link to a site he created for a class. Instead of using filler text for one sample page, he included a narrative that spoofs the Tom Cruise video, based on Cruise`s claim that Scientologists are the only ones who can help in a car crash.”
Cruise is “depicted rescuing a woman from a four-car pileup on the freeway: ‘Stand back, emergency workers,’ Cruise says in the story, which is widely copied on Anonymous websites. ‘Put down your jaws-of-life and crowbars. I am a Scientologist’.”
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nj.com – Verona man admits role in attack on Church of Scientology’s websites, November 16, 2009
leaked promotional video – It`s wild, it`s wooly! Tom Cruise video transcribed, January 18, 2008
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November 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
2 years in jail for a DDos attack?
Come on!
At this rate everyone will end up in jail eventually.
There is 4 millions people in jail right now in the US. Do you know what type of army we can raise out of four million people who have nothing to lose?
This is crazy!
November 19th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
and scientoligists wonder y they have a bad name everyone spread the news about this cult join at yours and your families peril scientoligists come after me i dare you
November 20th, 2009 at 2:24 am
“2 years in jail for a DDos attack?
Come on!
At this rate everyone will end up in jail eventually.”
Yes, everyone who sets up an illegal bot network by taking over others computers and then uses them to DDos a site will be arrested. That seems fair to me.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
“That seems fair to me.”
Once someone raise an army from this million of people in jail without hope and take over your country with it, that will seem fair to me to.