We can thank hackers for taking down more than 10,000 child pornography websites being hosted on the dark web.
Fairly recently, the discovery of numerous child pornography websites has led to the arrest of pedophiles such as the notorious Australian Peter Gerald Scully and his Filipina cohort Leizyl Margallo. The couple was responsible for the kidnapping, rape, torture, and brutal killings of little children as young as 18 months old. The couple filmed their heinous acts in order to sell to patrons on the dark web.
The dark web is an unregulated part of the internet that can only be accessed through the use of specialized software and net configurations. Most of the transactions that occur in the dark web are illegal and unethical.
Freedom Hosting II, one of the biggest hosts within the dark web, was recently hacked by members of the group called Anonymous. Freedom Hosting II, like many other dark websites, is only accessible through Tor, an anonymous network which makes it difficult for someone to trace the location and browsing habits of the user.
According to the hackers, they only initially planned to observe the host. But when they discovered a huge amount of child porn sites, they enacted their own brand of justice.
This is the message that now appears on the hosted sites:
"Hello Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.
We are disappointed... This is an excerpt from your front page 'We have a zero tolerance policy to child pornography - but what we found while searching through your server is more than 50% child porn.
Moreover you host many scam sites, some of which are evidently run by yourself to cover hosting expenses.
All your files have been copied and your database has been dumped (74GB of files and 2.3GB of database)
We are selling all data (excluding cp) for 0.1 BTC. Up to January 31st you were hosting 10613 sites. Private keys are included in the dump.
We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. You should have expected us.”
Most of the websites that were hacked were personal or political blogs and forums, according to privacy researcher Sara James Lewis.
How does this make you feel? Let us know in the comments section!
Source: TNP , EliteReaders
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