Hacker group targets child porn ring

[HOGGY952]

It seems hacker group Anonymous has declared war on child molesters. It's all over the online news, I just hope that the authorities are going to do
something with the information published by Anonymous.

Earlier this week, the nebulous and notorious international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous exposed a large ring of Internet pedophiles.


Operation Darknet
Tuesday, after hacking into Lolita City, a darknet website used by pedophiles to trade in child pornography, Anonymous released usernames and other information of 1,589 pedophiles trading in kiddie porn.

A darknet website is a closed private network of computers used for file sharing, sometimes referred to as a hidden wiki. Darknet websites are part of the Invisible Web, sometimes called the Deep Web, containing content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.

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[conny]

Well done Anonymous!

Hopefully passed on to Scotland Yard as well!

 

[TheOriginalTonkaToy]

They may have done more harm than good although it was undoubtedly well intentioned. The ring may already have been under surveillance in which case they've potentially corrupted the evidential trail and provided a possible defence by interfering with the systems. What they should have done was pass the evidence or suspicions straight to the authorities and let them deal with it.

 

[Djnikon]

I've been reading the pasteboard comments from anonymous and it's frightening how organised these vile bastards that own and use these darknet sites are. The darknet that this evil ran on was built by the owner of a major internet security corporation, they name him and his "tax lawyer" as well as the company. (there is an amusing story of them contacting the lawyer pretending to be from the LLC company asking why a shell holding has 10 active domains with 10GB/s activity and the lawyer panics and throws the owner/builder to the dogs)
It's also been in operation for more years than is acceptable at any level so I doubt that the authorities a) were doing anything about it or b) had the expertise to do what anonymous did. If you read the articles they released it's unbelievable what they had to go through to break down the door and bypass the security "bear" (it was good to know that they finally "killed" the bear).
Sadly, they had to report that the paedos regrouped and rebuilt the security very, very quickly (quicker than Anonymous thought possible) so that tells me something sinister is going on with how organised they seem to be.