The major grey area here seems to be.. The FBI was hosting the images.. what happened to them? Everyone can understand the logic of hosting the site to catch dangerous predators.. have to use the right bait, etc. etc... But where did the images go? Where did they come from?

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/21/fbi-ran-website-sharing-thousands-child-porn-images/79108346/ FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images Published 5:36 PM EST Jan 21, 2016

WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described as one of the Internet’s largest child pornography websites, allowing users to download thousands of illicit images and videos from a government site in the Washington suburbs. At the time, the site had more than 215,000 registered users and included links to more than 23,000 sexually explicit images and videos of children, including more than 9,000 files that users could download directly from the FBI. Officials acknowledged those risks, but said they had no other way to identify the people accessing the sites. The FBI was first known to have operated a child porn site in 2012, when agents seized control of three sites from their operator in Nebraska The next year, the FBI took control of a dark web site known as Freedom Hosting In each case, the FBI injected the site with malware to crack Tor’s anonymity.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gv5ggq/defense-lawyers-claim-fbi-peddled-child-porn-in-dark-web-sting Defense Lawyers Claim FBI Peddled Child Porn in Dark Web Sting Jan 8 2016, 6:00pm

"one defense team has made the extraordinary step of arguing to have their client's case thrown out completely. Their main argument is that the FBI, in briefly running the child pornography site from its own servers in Virginia, itself distributed an "untold" amount of illegal material."

(Own notes : Why use the term "untold" amount of illegal material. When most cases involving online pornography gives the amount of recovered data. Was 'other' sources mixed in and put on the top of the line FBI servers to increase bandwidth and access times..)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-government-is-using-malware-to-ensnare-child-porn-users/2016/01/21/fb8ab5f8-bec0-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html?postshare=6721453401674096&utm_term=.69d62b62048f This is how the government is catching people who use child porn sites January 21, 2016

The issue, said Ghappour, the law professor, is not the use of the malware per se, but “whether hacking warrants are written narrowly enough to guarantee that only those culpable set the trigger [to launch the NIT], and consequently get hacked,” he said. “Given the scale of these operations, the smallest mistake could result in hundreds, if not thousands, of privacy violations.”

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161127/16260336139/fbis-nit-hit-8000-computers-120-countries-as-did-child-porn-it-was-redistributing.shtml FBI's NIT Hit 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries... As Did The Child Porn It Was Redistributing Tue, Nov 29th 2016

"Your Honor, starting with Michaud, and what we know now is there was no discussion of trying to limit the distribution. There were no protocols for these agents for handling or limiting the distribution of child pornography. And the scale of the distribution now went out to at least 120 countries, at least 1 million images. And it is absolutely mind boggling, we have not seen something like this." "We have never, in our nation's history as far as I can tell, seen a warrant so utterly sweeping. 100,000 potential targets. Something like 8700 IP addresses captured. At least 1152 open investigations. And now oddly enough only, about 214 arrests." "What's even more disturbing, even if they disagree about the efficacy of some of those methods, we now know from Agent Alfin's recent testimony which we cited, there was absolutely no discussion at the Department of Justice or the FBI about protocols in terms of handling this stuff or whether these methods of limiting, at least limiting the most egregious distribution were viable. Nobody cared."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/aekkwk/here-is-the-warrant-the-fbi-used-to-hack-over-a-thousand-computers Here Is the Warrant the FBI Used to Hack Over a Thousand Computers Mar 8 2016, 4:50pm

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml The FBI Doesn't Want To Share Details On The Exploit It Deployed While Running A Child Porn Site Apr 4th 2016

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160512/07174834422/mozilla-asks-court-to-force-fbi-to-turn-over-information-hacking-tool-it-used-child-porn-case.shtml Mozilla Asks Court To Force FBI To Turn Over Information On Hacking Tool It Used In Child Porn Case May 12th 2016

With the Tor browser being built on the Firefox framework, any exploit of Tor could affect vanilla Firefox users. Not only that, but the FBI is apparently sitting on another Firefox vulnerability it used in a previous investigation to unmask Tor users. (This refers to the FBI's 2012 child porn sting, which also used a NIT to obtain information about visitors to a seized website.) The filing notes the FBI has been less than helpful when approached for info about this Firefox/Tor-exploiting NIT. Mozilla has contacted the Government about this matter but the Government recently refused to provide any information regarding the vulnerability used, including whether it affects Mozilla’s products. Accordingly, Mozilla requests that the Court modify its order to take into account how such disclosure may affect Mozilla and the safety of the several hundred million users who rely on Firefox. ---> September 6, 2018 - https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-browser-gets-a-redesign-switches-to-new-firefox-quantum-engine/ ---> August 11, 2017 - https://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/mozilla-joins-george-soross-efforts-launching-strike-fake-news.html

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnxbqw/unsealed-court-docs-show-fbi-used-malware-like-a-grenade Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like ‘A Grenade’ Nov 7 2016 "That is, while the warrant authorized hacking with a scalpel, the FBI delivered their malware to TorMail users with a grenade," Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told Motherboard in an email." ----> sidenote : Chris Soghoian : : November 13, 2012 : https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surveillance/surveillance-and-security-lessons-petraeus-scandal "For more than a decade, a persistent myth in Washington DC, fueled by several counterterrorism experts, has been that it is possible to hide a communications trail by sharing an email inbox, and instead saving emails in a “draft” folder. This technique has been used by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, Richard Reid (the shoe bomber), the 2004 Madrid train bombers, terrorists in Germany, as well as some domestic “eco-terrorists.” This technique has appeared in federal court documents as early as 2003, and was described in a law journal article written by a DOJ official in 2004. It is hardly a state secret." (sound familiar?) ----> https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/17/how-to-clear-all-those-old-emails-out-of-gmail-and-reclaim-your-peace-of-mind.html How to clear all those old emails out of Gmail so you don't have to pay for storage 18 Dec 2018

"Since 2013, Google has offered users 15 gigabytes of free storage." (when did Mr Sioghan write his article? Sounds like someone somewhere said.. well, make it happen then..)

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190110/10014041371/sixth-circuit-appeals-court-latest-to-say-cool-if-fbi-broke-law-during-playpen-investigation.shtml Sixth Circuit Appeals Court Latest To Say It's Cool If The FBI Broke The Law During Its Playpen Investigation Mon, Jan 14th 2019

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The NCMEC is the biggest library of CP in the world.

"Banned on Twitter for Talking about Brian Podesta and NCMEC" > https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1678736