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		<title>Man Pleads Guilty to DDOS Attack on Scientology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<br />In documents filed today, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink of Nebrasca has reportedly agreed to plead guilty to the unauthorized access of a protected computer and to serve a one-year sentence in...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<br /><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-38616" title="Picture 157 photo" src="http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2010/01/Picture-157.png" alt="Picture 157 Man Pleads Guilty to DDOS Attack on Scientology" width="260" height="287" />In documents filed today, Brian Thomas Mettenbrink of Nebrasca has <a href="http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Anonymous-Scientology-Attack-Guilty-82699872.html">reportedly</a> agreed to plead guilty to the unauthorized access of a protected computer and to serve a one-year sentence in federal prison.</p>
<p>Mettenbrink accepted he was part of an attack on the Scientology sites in January 2008, as part of a group labeling itself as &#8220;Anonymous.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anonymous was a loosely organized collection of Internet users, not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites such as <a href="http://4chan.org">4chan</a> and <a href="http://futaba.com">Futaba</a> are strongly associated with Anonymous. The group attacked Scientology&#8217;s websites after a legal challenge over this Tom Cruise video posted on YouTube. In the video unofficially titled &#8220;Tom Cruise on Tom Cruise: Scientologist,&#8221; the actor discusses, you guessed it, Scientology.</p>
<p>The attack disabled access to Scientology&#8217;s Web sites.</p>
<p>Mettenbrink, who now faces up to a year in jail, wasn&#8217;t the only one to get busted. Last year, Dmitriy Guzner, a member of an underground hacking group called Anonymous, pleaded guilty to charges of hacking the church&#8217;s Web site and agreed to pay a $37,500 fine. He was sentenced to one year in prison.</p>
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