An Anonymous group has taken down a major dark web hosting service

Re:An Anonymous group has taken down a major dark web hostin... by geondo on Saturday February 04, 2017 @11:52AM (#13567649)

I'm not claiming you're wrong, but do you have any evidence that there are a substantial number of people paying for CP via Bitcoin over Tor sites? I think people tend to overestimate how sophisticated criminals are.

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Re:An Anonymous group has taken down a major dark web hostin... by 3131s on Saturday February 04, 2017 @12:20PM (#13567803)

Some CP producers / distributors unfortunately have shown to be very sophisticated:

http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/12/01/yardbirds-effective-u...

Here is another case of literal pay-per-view on the deep web:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully

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Re:An Anonymous group has taken down a major dark web hostin... by ycmbntrthrwaway on Saturday February 04, 2017 @01:49PM (#13568312)

Thanks for the link.

Good thing it does not justify banning Tor:

> The reason the majority of the group was able to avoid capture was in a small way due to the technology they were using (Tor), but primarily it was adherence to the security rules of the group.

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Re:An Anonymous group has taken down a major dark web hostin... by Cyph0n on Saturday February 04, 2017 @12:49PM (#13567979)

Holy shit, that's another level of depravity.

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