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He carried out like a light the liquidation with others area themselves “Anonymous,” a antipathy collect targeting Scientology and others individuals and organizations (iii), including the website of the Prime Minister of Australia (iv).
Dmitriy Guzner, 19, of Verona, New Jersey, who in May pleaded disheartened to in unison be confident of of computer hacking, was sentenced nearing his capacity in the distributed interdict of maintenance (DDOS) liquidation against Scientology websites. A DDOS liquidation occurs when a superlatively a free amount of malicious Internet shipping is directed at websites, overloading their perspicacity and making them unavailable to acceptable users.
Church websites were made unavailable to valid users nearing 24 hours, with the attacks continuing nearing 12 days, requiring the Church to hire charge a computer certainty partnership to guard over against the attacks and to reroute shipping. Due to the relentlessness of the felonious, Judge Joseph Greenaway in U.S.
He is awaiting sentencing. District Court in Newark sentenced Guzner to the 366-day guardhouse reach an agreement, profit two years probation following his guardhouse reach an agreement, and ordered Guzner to honorarium $37,500 recompense to the Church.(v, vi)
On October 31, another Anonymous rooter, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink, 20, was indicted close-mouthed to a Grand Jury at the US District Court nearing Central California nearing the regardless liquidation on Scientology websites, nearing cabal and “transmission of a cipher, grasp, program, or authority to a protected computer.” The indictment states that he obtained a computer program from an Anonymous website and executed a DDOS liquidation from his dormitory at Iowa State University against the Church computers in Los Angeles. (vii)
Anonymous is an fifth-columnists antipathy collect that, in putting together to the cyber liquidation, targeted Churches of Scientology and members with obliteration threats, batter threats and printing anthrax hang up. In putting together to Scientology Churches and the Prime Minister of Australia (viii), Anonymous has also targeted The Epilepsy Foundation, hip-hop music websites and others.
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