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With old-fashioned, barbaric crusades having gone the way of the Pet Rock, it seems people have started to take their religious beefs from the war-grounds to the Web. The most recent cyber-attack, though, might be the most confusing yet. As the Huffington Post reports, Dmitriy Guzner, a 19-year-old from New Jersey, has been sentenced to a 366-day term in federal prison for participating in a cyber-attack on Church of Scientology Web sites back in January of 2008. According to the charges, Guzner and his hacker lackeys conducted a massive denial of service attack on the sites, rendering them inaccessible to other users. The cyber-assassin plead guilty to computer hacking charges in May, and will serve an additional two years of probation upon his release from prison.
The head-scratcher? Prosecutors claim that Guzner was operating as part of a covert anti-Scientology hack team called "Anonymous," (Ed. Note: Not just Scientology, but "Anonymous" is part of a larger hack group) which protests the Church on the grounds that it promotes Internet censorship. So their logic, if we heard correctly, was to combat censorship with malicious, vigilante... censorship? Nope, no unsound reasoning here. [From: Huffington Post]
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Subscribe to commentsBeo P.Nov 19th 2009 5:21PM
Anonymous is WAY more than that. Please. Where did you get the idea or information that anonymous was only against the church because of internet censorship? It's about the abuse and lies of the church and the deaths involved. We protest the church under MORAL values, and we do NOT condone hacking. No way. Nobody told that man to do that. He did it on his own. Anonymous participates in civil peaceful protests. However much the danger is from even standing outside those churches (People have been stalked, tracked and killed by the church for participating in protests, thus, we wear Guy Fawkes masks for the symbolism of a world freed from control and greed.)
And anonymous is not a "hack team". Yes, we are on the internet, and yes, we are on /b/ (sorry, guys) but that doesn't automatically make us hackers.
Joaquin McGinnNov 20th 2009 9:51PM
I am sick and tired of watching these people be under fire for no reason at the hands of Anonymous. I live in San Francisco where I seem to often come across people who have take Scientology courses and they are stand up people; respectful, understanding, and very helpful. Abuse and lies huh? I highly doubt that there has ever been any religion in history free of human error! Scientology has a wide variety of efforts to make the world better. For example, Drug free world, youth for human rights, volunteer ministers. Its individuals like this hacker that dont open their eyes to the good in other and end up contributing nothing to society.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141236/Teen_gets_prison_term_for_attack_on_Scientology_Web_site