Hacker Admits To Scientology DDoS Attack

lbwbl writes with news that a New Jersey man will plead guilty to one felony count of 'unauthorized impairment of a protected computer' for his distributed denial of service attacks on Scientology websites as part of 'Anonymous' earlier this year. From Wired: "He faces a likely sentence of 12 to 18 months in prison based on stipulations in his plea agreement, which also obliges him to pay $37,500 in restitution. ... Friday's case, in US District Court in Los Angeles, marks the first prosecution of an Anonymous member for a series of attacks against the Church of Scientology that began in mid-January. The secretive religious group strayed into Anonymous' sights after trying to suppress the publication of a creepy Tom Cruise video produced for Scientology members."

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Re:Link to creepy Tom Cruise video

[rhesuspieces00]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0

Alternate Methods

[Anonymous Coward]

To the best of my knowledge, the DDOS attacks stopped in January. The people who are currently protesting are not using those methods.

You can check out what they are up to at
http://forums.scientology-exposed.com/
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/

To find out why people are still protesting start reading the stories here
http://www.forum.exscn.net/forumdisplay.php?f=2
http://www.exscientologykids.com/voicesinunison.html

Former scientologists are finally starting to have the courage to speak out and need to be supported.

In my home town alone, a former scientologist's apartment has been broken into & had file boxes stolen (left the TV, DVDs & laptop), slashed her car tires, cut the wires in her car (including the brake lights), ran her off the road, stalked her at the neighborhood swimming pool & tried to intimidate her there with her kids, have been trying to mentally fuck with her by turning off her circuit breakers for her apartment, have had vans & PIs staking out her home & following her.

These are not nice people. They need to be exposed.

Re:Anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't need to try and not get caught if you're not doing anything illegal to start with. If the CoS tries to get you arrested for peaceful protesting they'll be the ones that end up looking like assholes.

Keith Henson wasn't that lucky.

Re:scientology needs a worldwide campaign launched

[Anonymous Coward]

This is happening. http://www.whyweprotest.net. DO IT NOW.

Re:scientology needs a worldwide campaign launched

[Alien54]

Here are the patents and patent dates

The major technical difference between the earlier models and later models is the introduction of the transistor vs the use of vacuum tubes.

Patents by Mathison

Patent number: 2684670
Filing date: Aug 1, 1951
http://www.google.com/patents?id=L7tDAAAAEBAJ

Patent number: 2810383
Filing date: Sep 1, 1954
http://www.google.com/patents?id=mXVLAAAAEBAJ

Patent number: 2799269
Filing date: Feb 7, 1956
http://www.google.com/patents?id=wxNbAAAAEBAJ

Patents by Hubbard

Patent number: 3290589
Filing date: Jun 7, 1965
http://www.google.com/patents?id=OVpxAAAAEBAJ&

Patent number: D264877
Filing date: Mar 8, 1979
http://www.google.com/patents?id=pAMqAAAAEBAJ

Patent number: 4459995
Filing date: Sep 22, 1981
http://www.google.com/patents?id=YYsxAAAAEBAJ