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Anonymous Takes Down 10,613 Dark Web Portals (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous hackers have breached Freedom Hosting II, a popular Dark Web hosting provider, and have taken down 10,613 .onion sites. In a message left on all Freedom Hosting II sites, the hackers claim to have found massive troves of child pornography imagery hosted on the company's servers. The hackers dumped 74GB of server files (half of which they say contained child pornography) and a database dump of 2.3GB. Security researcher Chris Monteiro has analyzed some of the dumped data. He says he discovered .onion URLs hosting botnets, fraud sites, sites peddling hacked data, weird fetish portals, more weird stuff, and child abuse websites targeting both English- and Russian-speaking buyers. Freedom Hosting II hosts about a fifth of all .onion URLs. The first Freedom Hosting service was targeted by Anonymous in 2011 and eventually shut down in 2013 after the FBI also found child pornography hosted on its sites.
Normally I would not approve, but that much child stuff...good for them. Shut it down.
The FBI will have to find a new way to entrap people into child poornography, as they operate all the child pornography websites on the Internet.
They did a data dump, a torrent, with all these sites on? Isn't that, you know, a bad idea?
What is the link to the torrent?
The problem is one of taxonomy. When certain impulses are usually triggered by sex, they are labeled sexual, no matter whether the fact remains that they can be triggered by other neurological pathways. A lot of the social arguments are ones of taxonomy. Whether or not someone is male or female, or the less appealing classification of neuter, or whether the bonding of two or more individuals should be classified under the term, "marriage". ]
And of course you want to know this for Science!
The timing of our two posts is incredible, especially considering the time between when I first saw his comment and when the urge to make this sort of comment on it became irresistible.
Over 9,000!
Anonymous are attacking a hosting service that allows people to host things anonymously? Weren't these guys touted as the anti-establishment pro-freedom guys? Why does "FOR THE CHILDREN!!!" suddently the basic freedoms of all the non child abusers in the service?
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
Everything is Gary Johnson with you... There were other candidates that lost too, like, um a Green party candidate I can't be bothered to look up and I don't know whether the contrast between the effort put into making this joke and the sheer apathy involved in not looking up or remembering the candidate's name, Jill something? makes it funnier or lamer, and now I've gone completely meta, but then I like it when I go completely meta, and anyone who doesn't like it, tough. You can get over your bad self, or not. It's not like I care about that aspect of things. You be you. I'm here for the amusement of the joke. Thank you. Go to a place that has waiters and order something and tip them. Good night, Gracie.
Anonymous still exists? Perhaps if they had a singular focus they could galvinize more people behind it. Until then, they still just a bunch of kids playing whackamole on random bullshit.
Not in anyway saying the emlimination child porn is a bad thing, I'm all for it!. But to be relevent as a long standing entity, you must also have a cohesive vision and focus. Play the long game, not the random mob seizure game you have always played.
Why are Trump supporters sister fuckers? The Douchebag in Chief's travel ban has been found illegal in a court of law. His supporters are ignorant inbred meth head losers. They are also sexual assault supporters but would be pissed if Trump raped one of their their own family members so we can add hyprocrosicy to their list of unfortunate traits.
Now to get me some pizza.
Oh My!
So, Anonymous is now a commercial operation. Donate untraceable bit coins and here is your data.
Let's say that I do get tortured and abused, and someone gets pictures of it and puts them online, say in liveleak, or even in some "well respected" news site. Who is responsible for torturing me? The one who did it? Or the jerks who hosted the pics?
They are both responsible, provided no party is a common carrier.
I read a very interesting article recently on the law of the commons. It essentially said that knowing someones real identity in a public commons, makes for polite (read socially acceptable) behaviour. This is why facebook is generally very polite; but anonymous blog comments can be abusive.
The issue is, we have a great tussle between our valid fear of governments, and even private businesses, abusing their knowledge of you; and our need as a society to protect those that cannot protect themselves by revealing the identity of those that abuse. This is not only children, but the elderly, and those with physical and mental impairments.
There is currently no answer to this problem as the two requirements will always oppose each other.
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Anonymous only picks the low hanging fruit. The declared war on Trump, and failed, and then abandoned "Operation Trump."
Skiddies.
How exactly do you think this constitutes entrapment? What, precisely, did the FBI allegedly do here that forced people not already predisposed to visit CP sites to visit their sites? It seems to me that you're simply promulgating an old myth about entrapment, in that merely giving someone the means to commit a crime they were already predisposed to commit is 'entrapment', when this is not so. If that's what you think, please read this guide written by an actual lawyer.
There's a reasonable discussion of harm minimization here as to whether the interest in catching predators using the sites outweighed allowing them to continue to exist, but the idea that giving would-be criminals an opportunity to commit crime somehow constitutes "entrapment" is one of the most common myths.
Now, it is true that the standard reasoning given for why possession (as opposed to production) of child pornography is illegal is very much at odds with the idea of keeping the site live, in that they're ostensibly re-victimizing those portrayed in the CP sites they permit to live. However, that is by no means the only rationale as to why mere possession should be illegal. But if you want to argue that, you'd do well to discuss it in more detail rather than simply dashing off some ill-premised missive regarding an FBI operation that happened months ago.
Because we obviously dont learn the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, ....
pics or it didn't happen
Apparently pizza and hot dogs are the preferred cuisine for pedophiles.
In a day, maximum 2, this story is ALL over the media. Of course, just randomly, with focus ONLY on the CP. The rest about fraud sites etc is too hard to explain. Common people understand two words "shutdown" and "CP". And of course no mention of how TOR can also be a useful function. My guess could be that TOR will soon be illegal because of something like this. Oh, and the people trading CP will soon be active again. Maybe using pigeons and exchanging physical CDs.
Take down their entire House of Cards!!!!!
While I appreciate Anonymous' action in this latest hack, I wish they would hack into the student loan data base and release millions of borrowers from their loan burdens.
Hey Anonymous! Why not stop focusing on the little fish and actually go after big sharks, like that Great White (and orange) sexual predator/child molester Drumph! Actually affect some positive change for once and flex some real muscle.
You should join ISIS. I hope you suffer a long and painful dead as a jihadi.. That kind of thinking is why we call you people 'Christian Taliban'.
So you hope people die painfully and slowly. Yes, indeed you have some issues to resolve!
The people in charge change regularly enough that I wouldn't label the FBI as some monolithic block when there must be thousands of people in there with different motivations, knowledge, and leadership.
Besides, more than a few high ranking pedos have been taken down, for example former Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. I'm surprised Podesta would still want to hang out with that guy, but then again, they do have a long history together.
The real Anonymous probably had nothing to do with this. More likely, it was all the FBI.