Teen Gets Prison Term for Scientology DDOS Attack

I’m going to reserve comment on this story and just let you guys do it. Dmitriy Guzner, an 19-year-old New Jersey man, was sentenced to a year and a day of prison time and ordered to pay $37,500 in restitution to the Church of Scientology for his role in a DDOS attack on the church’s website in January 2008. Hmm…

Guzner took part in a series of distributed denial of service attacks that knocked the Church of Scientology's Web site offline for several days. The DDOS attacks began Jan. 19 and proceeded to knock the Scientology.org Web site offline by hitting it with several bursts of up to 220Mbit/sec. in unwanted Internet traffic.

Well at least he was hacking to do something useful. This is a lot better than that hacker that put a flashing screen on the home page of a site for epileptics.

We're talking about an organization who successfully had someone prosecuted for threatening to launch a "Tom Cruise" missile at them. He mad an online joke and they actually successfully prosecuted him for terrorist threats or "interfering with a religion" or something like that.

They also engaged in character assassination against him which continues to this day.

Google Keith Henson.

The (so-called) Church of Scientology is one of the most destructive cults to exist in the past 100 years.

Wow..seriously? A year in prison for a ddos attack? While I don't condone that type of behavior, that is still extreme. I know a ton of people who got popped for launching a DDOS and got nothing more then a slap on the wrist.

Just more proof that religion is a blight upon this world.

Its because it was an attack on more than just 1 individual heh and to an organization like that. Im sure thats the reason for it.

However DDOS attacks are illegal so.....

Originally Posted by Dekoth

Just more proof that religion is a blight upon this world.

Except no religion is involved in this case.

hahahahhahahaa

"worth it"

Sucks for him, hacking to make a better world though.

Going to jail for fucking with a cult? Dang I was hoping for a happy ending.

Originally Posted by Dekoth

Wow..seriously? A year in prison for a ddos attack? While I don't condone that type of behavior, that is still extreme. I know a ton of people who got popped for launching a DDOS and got nothing more then a slap on the wrist.

It's like speeding and going fast enough to get reckless driving. A person knows they are wrong for that shit but they do it anyway.

Maybe they get lucky? The Cop pulls them over and doesn't charge reckless or they get even luckier and the judge reduces it from reckless.

But the whole time you were doing it... you knew it could land your ass a night in jail. Same with a DDOS attack or downloading gigabytes of stolen crap on the internet. You never expect the maximum punishment, but you shouldn't be surprised when they throw the book at you.

Originally Posted by ekierce

We're talking about an organization who successfully had someone prosecuted for threatening to launch a "Tom Cruise" missile at them.

Hey wait a minute, that's enough to strike the fear to any sane person.

Originally Posted by ekierce

We're talking about an organization who successfully had someone prosecuted for threatening to launch a "Tom Cruise" missile at them. He mad an online joke and they actually successfully prosecuted him for terrorist threats or "interfering with a religion" or something like that.

They also engaged in character assassination against him which continues to this day.

Google Keith Henson.

The (so-called) Church of Scientology is one of the most destructive cults to exist in the past 100 years.

Wow. They really learned their character assassination, didn't they? Result 5 for Keith Henson: Keith Henson is a child molester, supposedly written by his daughters. Jesus.

Originally Posted by finalgt

Wow. They really learned their character assassination, didn't they? Result 5 for Keith Henson: Keith Henson is a child molester, supposedly written by his daughters. Jesus.

Hopefully his lawyer is looking into this.

Originally Posted by Dekoth

Wow..seriously? A year in prison for a ddos attack? While I don't condone that type of behavior, that is still extreme. I know a ton of people who got popped for launching a DDOS and got nothing more then a slap on the wrist.

Just more proof that religion is a blight upon this world.

Just more proof that money always wins, that church has so much cash behind it!

Interfering with a religion is a crime? How is that constitutional?

Originally Posted by odysseus145

Interfering with a religion is a crime? How is that constitutional?

What the title of this thread dude? DDOS ATTACK

Originally Posted by Shockey

What the title of this thread dude? DDOS ATTACK

I think he is referencing the fact that there was more charge than just for the DDOS.

jail time really?

what a joke.....Scientology makes me sick