FBI seized 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them

FBI seized 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them ( arstechnica.com )

submitted 2016-11-26T03:13:34 by MeatballPizza

2 comments

derram 2016-11-26T03:20:10

FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them | Ars Technica

' "Websites 1-23" were signed off by a different judge in Maryland.Ars asked FBI spokesman Christopher Allen if at one point the FBI was running half of all child porn sites on the Tor-hidden Web, and if so, was this still true. ', "While Websites 1-23 operate at a government facility, such request data associated with a user's actions on Websites 1-23 will be collected."

'As Ars has reported, federal investigators temporarily seized a Tor-hidden site known as Playpen in 2015 and operated it for 13 days before shutting it down. '

'In the normal course of the operation of a web site, a user sends "request data" to the web site in order to access that site. '

'So to suggest this is a common thing is patently not true.”Lewis is herself a former computer scientist at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ, the British-equivalent of the NSA). '

This has been an automated message.

link

MeatballPizza 2016-11-26T03:14:19

I see some posting about doing research into these sites. Tread carefully. "I was trying to help the police" doesn't work as a defense. Having CP on your computer = federal crime, however it got there.

link