Friday, November 11, 2016

The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites

The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites
http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/fbi-authorized-to-run-24-child-porn-site

The FBI has a controversial new method of fighting child pornography: distributing child pornography. As part of "Operation Pacifier," the federal law-enforcement agency ran a dark-web child porn clearinghouse called The Playpen for two weeks, delivering malware to any site visitors, in a scheme that was revealed last summer. But it turns out that site may not have been the only dark-web site that the FBI maintained. According to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the agency was actually authorized to takeover 23 child-pornography websites in addition to The Playpen.......

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