On Friday October 17th, The U.S. Department of Justice announced the filing of federal criminal charges against Dmitry Guzner of New Jersey, a member of the cyber-terrorist group known as Anonymous, related to the January, 2008 attempted destruction of websites owned by the Church of Scientology. Guzner has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges that could send him to prison for ten years.
Guzner admitted that he acted on behalf of Anonymous, an Internet hate group whose members have in recent years engaged in illegal threats, attacks, criminal harassment and hate-crimes against minorities, religions, media organizations, individuals and other groups in the form of terrorist threats and acts, bomb threats, death threats, acts of vandalism, web-site attacks and computer hacking.
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