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TOR-Anonymised Pedophile Ring Busted

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 19 2014, @12:43PM   
from the special-victims-unit dept.

Absinth writes:

From MSNBC, "It (the site) attempted to operate as a 'discussion-only' forum where people could share their sexual interest in young boys without committing any specific offenses, thus operating 'below the radar' of police attention. Having made contact on the site, some members would move to more private channels, such as email, to exchange and share illegal images and films of children being abused.

The statement said Europol analysts had cracked the security features of a key computer server at the center of the network which uncovered the identities of suspected child sex offenders. And, after his arrest, the forum's Dutch administrator helped police break encryption measures that shielded users' identities, allowing police to begin their covert investigations.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement( ICE ) has also issued a news release."

• Re:Tor users all guilty now? (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19 2014, @01:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 19 2014, @01:09PM (#18521)

  Yes, it's official, the "Darknet" is now a single network, that is also known as Tor: they have become synonymous in the eyes of the US ICE (from the link):

  Fourteen men operating a child pornography website on the Darknet's Onion Router, also known as Tor,

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