Wednesday, 10 February 2016
Data from Operation Pacifier — a law enforcement sting operation that saw the FBI running a child sex abuse site — could have just played a part in convicting a 21-year-old London man, Vithusan Puvaneswaran, for possession of extreme pornographic images of children. Puvaneswaran was sentenced to 12 months in prison on Friday for possessing over 100GB of data, including 48,000 photographs and videos of child sex abuse. Many of these files were from the site the dark Web site the FBI ran in 2015, Playpen. What’s curious is how UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) obtained Puvaneswaran’s IP address at all.…
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