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posted by on Tuesday February 07 2017, @08:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-do-we-know-the-percentage? dept.

The Dark Web is having a rough time right now... although the victims in this case won't earn too much sympathy. An Anonymous-linked hacker speaking to Motherboard brought down about a fifth of the Tor network's 'secret' websites (over 10,000 of them) in a claimed vigilante move. The intruder decided to attack a Dark Web hosting service, Freedom Hosting II, after discovering that it was managing child porn sites it had to be aware of -- they were using gigabytes of data each when the host officially allows no more than 256MB. Each site had its usual pages replaced with a message that not only chastised FH2, but offered a data dump (minus user info) and explained the nature of the hack.

Reportedly, the attack wasn't difficult. The hacker only needed to have control over a site (new or existing) to get started. After that, it was mostly a matter of modifying a configuration file, triggering a password reset and getting root access.

From early indications, the perpetrator is handling the data relatively responsibly. It's going to a security researcher who'll hand it over to law enforcement, which might just use it to bust the porn peddlers.

Source:

https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/05/hack-knocks-out-fifth-of-dark-web/


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:15PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:15PM (#464292) Journal

    Parallel construction is a Conspiracy of prosecutors and law enforcement to commit perjury by lying to the court and the defense about what their evidence actually is.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 07 2017, @09:47PM (#464310)

    "hardly anyone who matters cares"

    So you care. Do you matter?
    If so, congratulations, you are hardly anyone.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Tuesday February 07 2017, @10:07PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 07 2017, @10:07PM (#464326)

    Nope, what the evidence _is_ doesn't change, how they got it is where the lying is...