FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in Society

Re:FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in... by FireBeyond on Monday September 05, 2016 @06:09PM (#12432490)

"For the most part wether the fbi was operating this server or not the people who visit the server came there out of their own free will in an attempt to acquire child pornography."

That was one of the core questions here - why logins went up 350% under the control of the FBI. Was there any advertising, inducements?

And "part of the role of of maintaining a non-suspicious facade was uploading new material for members".

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Re:FBI’s Deep Web Child Porn Ring Questions Role of Gov’t in... by syshum on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:59PM (#12432897)

I believe that was answered, the FBI simply ran it on better and faster hardware, with better uptime.

I do not believe the FBI continued to operate it as is on the criminals hardware, I believe they took possession of the "server" then likely imaged it and spun up a new instance of the site on the FBI own servers, these servers likely had much better specs, and a much better connection to the internet.

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