Anonymous flatlines a host that served up kiddie porn on a dark net

[thewayne]

Just goes to show that almost anything good can be twisted. I was going to say perverted, but we're talking about child pornography, and that is really beyond perversion. The hosting service, ironically called Freedom Hosting, hosted 40+ web sites dedicated to illegal porn, one such site called Lolita City reportedly had 100 gig of such stuff.

The dark net stuff is the interesting part. I've often wondered how such a thing would be created, and it has been done: they use TOR, The Onion Router, an anonymizing software package from the Electronic Freedom Foundation that was intended for people in highly-restrictive countries like China and Iran to be able to access the internet and get information out without the government being able to trace it back to them.

Anonymous learned of Freedom Hosting providing services for this site, sent them a demand telling them to remove this content, and when Freedom didn't, Anonymous took them offline.

http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/anonymous-hackers-child-porn-sites-1260/

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/22/1325238/anonymous-hackers-take-down-child-porn-websites

Comments

[silveradept]

I think this is the Eye of Anonymous - the only way o avoid getting taken down by them is either to escape their gaze or not be big enough to be noticed.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I'll not lose any sleep over kiddie porn sites getting nuked, nor if their provider gets caught in the fallout (I toured the Titan Silo Monday afternoon, so nuke metaphors may abound). I am intrigued by the concept of dark nets, though. I may not like the concept of potentially being able to recruit assassins through it, but it would be one method of potentially avoiding gov't and ISP monitoring.

[silveradept]

Those kinds of things are what onion routing its supposed to facilitate. Of course, there will always be someone ready to corrupt a pure purpose so they can make money or engage in criminal activity. It's the mixed blessing that is technology.