Sunday 24 January 2016
Details of the full extent of the FBI’s hacking of a child pornography site hosted on the Dark Web emerged a few weeks ago via Motherboard, revealing that the organization has used unusual means to collect evidence in order to prosecute users of the site. To do this it took the step of hosting the site on its own servers for 13 days. During that time it was allowing images of child sexual abuse to be distributed (something that is against its normal procedure) so that it could garner IP addresses and deposit malware that would transmit information about the site’s users to the FBI, so the individuals could later be…
This story continues at The Next Web
