Youth faces jail after Scientology DDoS attack
p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- Remember Dmitriy Guzner?
“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”, said p2pnet last November.
Now “Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, 20, has agreed to plead guilty [next] Monday to misdemeanor unauthorized access of a protected computer,” says the Grand Island Independent.
Mettenbrink, “associated with the group ‘Anonymous’,” faces a year in jail.
Anonymous “took part in a distributed denial of service attack, which involved flooding a victim computer with large amounts of data in order to disable a site, against Church of Scientology Web sites, according to court documents,” says the story, adding:
“Mettenbrink worked with others to launch the attacks by loading a program onto his computer in his dorm room at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.”
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
p2pnet – Dmitriy Guzner vs Scientology, November 19, 2009
Grand Island Independent – Former G.I. man accused of cyber attack, January 26, 2010
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January 27th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
IMMA CHARGE MY LASER
The Program is called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (aka LOIC.exe available via Sourceforge and your fave torrent site)
…but thats a secret, So we wont tell anyone xD
January 28th, 2010 at 9:15 am
So anti-P2P attack dog MediaDefender takes down Revision3’s torrent tracker for several days with a massive DoS attack, and they get to walk away?
Can someone tell me why only the little guy ever goes to jail?