http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2cofoq/that_awkward_moment_when_wired_completely_rips/
On 08/05/2014 10:31 AM, Rejo Zenger wrote:
Hi, http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/ "Operation Torpedo began with an investigation in the Netherlands in August 2011. Agents at the National High Tech Crime Unit of the Netherlands’ national police force had decided to crack down on online child porn, according to an FBI affidavit. To that end, they wrote a web crawler that scoured the Dark Net, collecting all the Tor onion addresses it could find. The NHTCU agents systematically visited each of the sites and made a list of those dedicated to child pornography. Then, armed with a search warrant from the Court of Rotterdam, the agents set out to determine where the sites were located. That, in theory, is a daunting task—Tor hidden services mask their locations behind layers of routing. But when the agents got to a site called “Pedoboard,” they discovered that the owner had foolishly left the administrative account open with no password. They logged in and began poking around, eventually finding the server’s real Internet IP address in Bellevue, Nebraska." The operation is in known in the Netherlands by the name of Descartes. The name "Torpedo" was their internal nickname for the operation. The case was a followup to the Robert M.-case, one of the largest child abuse-cases in the Netherlands.
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