Anonymous Hackers Track Saboteur, Find and Punish the Wrong Guy

Anti-Scientology agitators have continually harassed and threatened some sort of violence against a 59-year-old PG&E worker and his wife, who were mistakenly flagged as pro-Scientology hackers.

According to Wired, John Lawson and his wife Julia began to receive threats over the phone. Until THREAT LEVEL explained to him that a group was calling itself the g00ns (used zeros instead of O's) posted his address, phone number and cell numbers, and his wife's social security number, online. The phone calls had continued through last Tuesday. The phone calls were one small effort of the ongoing attack on the Church of Scientology by a group of Internet hackers who had called themselves Anonymous. The group said it was targeting Scientology because of its use of litigation to suppress documents on the Internet. Lawson said "I don't even really know how to use a computer. They have got the wife really scared because they have my address. I think I am going to buy me a gun today just in case." A commenter on Digg had suggested that the g00ns had tracked down the IP address and traced it to Lawson. If that were the case, the group had overlooked a possibility that Lawson's computer or router was comprised and used by the real attacker as a possible proxy to hide the hacker's real location. This definitely isn't the first time anti-Scientologists had went after the wrong target.