Compiled and posted by Noor al Haqiqa
October 25, 2011
It is clear that the
Anonymous Movement incites both positive and negative reactions, but I just
discovered something they are doing that is absolutely wonderful. Anonymous
have turned their gaze on internet providers of child pornography and they are
taking action.
In a move that we can all
get behind, hacker group Anonymous has announced that they have taken down a
huge cache of child pornography and released 1,589 usernames of the website’s
patrons. The action came as part of Operation Darknet, which targets illicit
websites that are part of an unindexed and therefore unsearchable corner of the
Internet.
The server in question is
owned by Freedom Hosting, and apparently services over 40 child pornography
websites. The largest of these, disturbingly called Lolita City, was said to
contain over 100 gb of child pornography.
Interestingly, the
Anonymous hack is extremely well documented. In two separate Pastebin posts,
the hackers involved provide a timeline of events, as
well as some
of the methodologies they used in tracking and taking down the
servers.
According to their
timeline, the hackers first became aware of Lolita City while leading a related
campaign against a portion of the Hidden Wiki which included links to child
pornography. While working to suppress the Hidden Wiki for linking to child
pornography, the group turned their attentions to the websites linked on the
Wiki. Through their investigations, they discovered that many of the sites
shared a similar “fingerprint” in that they were supported and hosted by a
company called Freedom Hosting.
The takedown is part of
Anonymous’ Operation
Darknet, an anti-child-pornography effort aimed at thwarting child
pornographers operating on the Tor network. Anonymous’ attack was
focused on a hosting service called Freedom Hosting, which the group claims was
the largest host of child pornography on Tor’s anonymized network. “By taking
down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites,”
Anonymous claimed in
its statement. “Among these is Lolita City, one of the largest child
pornography websites to date, containing more than 100GB of child pornography.”
Based on a secure
networking technology originally developed by the US Navy, Tor routes traffic
through a collection of volunteer servers scattered across the Internet, making
monitoring of what is being viewed or where communications are coming from
difficult. The Tor network also hosts a private “dark” top-level domain, .onion
(which is not an official TLD), via its Hidden Service Protocol; these
sites are visible only to Tor users or those using a Tor gateway such as tor2web.org.
Because of its anonymity,
Tor is widely used by individuals and groups seeking to communicate without
being surveilled by authorities, employers, or eavesdroppers watching packets
on public WiFi networks, as well as those wishing to visit websites anonymously
without having their IP address recorded.
According to the Tor
Project’s own metrics, the service has recently been averaging over 400,000
users per day.
The Tor network was heavily used in Egypt
earlier this year by dissidents to get around the Mubarak regime’s Internet
shut-down, and is used by bloggers in Syria to
communicate with the outside world. The network is also used by some who want
to publish other sorts of material and conceal themselves from prying eyes,
including pirated movie and software torrent publishers (which has made some
Tor server providers the target of DMCA takedown notices). It's
also attracted child pornographers and the pedophiles who are their customers.
Anonymous then issued an
ultimatum to Freedom Hosting to remove the content, or be shut down through
their attacks. Freedom Hosting refused, and has since been the target of the
hackers’ ire.
While attacks by the
hacker group have often been divisive, going after the supporters of child
pornography is something that is hard to criticize.
This is a great
application of the group’s talents; an intersection of Internet knowledge and
the ability to carry out electronic attacks. Of course, preventing child
pornography from being moved around the Internet doesn’t stop the predators
that created the materials. Hopefully, law enforcement will take up the
information gleaned by the group and start making some arrests.
Anonymous said it
released the information about users of that website, including usernames, how
long they have been active on the site and how many images they have shared.
According to the crime-related blog DreaminDemon, the group also claims to have
learned the identities of some of the people on the list and have invited the
FBI to contact them if they wanted the details.
40 websites reported down
at this time...here's hoping more to come.
The following speaks to
what Anonymous' intentions are and how seriously they are taking this issue.
#opdarknet - additional chat logs of
Lolita City owner: http://pastebin.com/G6NYD6gJ
#opdarknet - DOX of some of Lolita
City's users: http://pastebin.com/TDzM5G2y
#opdarknet - death of pedo bear (our
'The Legion'): http://pastebin.com/SPjPgFRB
#opdarknet - our momentos (legality
of #opdarknet): http://pastebin.com/QPLTSyW8
#opdarknet - The Hidden Wiki crown
jewels (sites of CP hosted by FH and others): http://pastebin.com/LZU7MTYE
#opdarknet - Lolita City user dump
(SQL user dump of major site with usernames, CP age preferences, TorPM,
TorChat, and BTC transactions): http://pastebin.com/EccyEgtN
#opdarknet - A take down of kiddie porners (Our purpose of
#opdarknet): http://pastebin.com/j1SECHwz
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
mouais...weird !
ReplyDelete"Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents."
ReplyDeleteThe above could be the real reason for the hacks...just sayin. When people start talking about kiddie porn...I look for a misdirecting yiddish hand. I don't see "anon" going after the zionist crime network....maybe I missed that part.
Taking out child molesters, child rapists and all similar scum is good (no matter who takes them out)!
ReplyDeleteBut on Tor and "Anonymous";
Some of Tor's "sponsors":
(USA) Naval Research Laboratory (2006-2010)
Google (2008-2009) (confirmed to work with government intel agencies)
Google Summer of Code (2007-2011)
National Christian Foundation (2010-2012) (front for something other than "christians")
Past sponsors
(USA's) DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (2001-2006) (DARPA is US Pentagon, ONR is Office of US Naval Research)
Bell Security Solutions Inc (2006) (US intel related)
NSF via Rice University (2006-2007) (Nations Security Foundation is intel and DHS relateded)
https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en
So who might "Tor" and "Anonymous" be (and anyone who thinks that "Tor" is keeping you anonymous on the internet - think again ...?
I think that is a good comment.
ReplyDeleteTaking out child molesters, child rapists and all similar scum is good (no matter who takes them out)!
But on Tor and "Anonymous";
Some of Tor's "sponsors":
(USA) Naval Research Laboratory (2006-2010)
Google (2008-2009) (confirmed to work with government intel agencies)
Google Summer of Code (2007-2011)
National Christian Foundation (2010-2012) (front for something other than "christians")
Past sponsors
(USA's) DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory (2001-2006) (DARPA is US Pentagon, ONR is Office of US Naval Research)
Bell Security Solutions Inc (2006) (US intel related)
NSF via Rice University (2006-2007) (Nations Security Foundation is intel and DHS relateded)
https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors.html.en
So who might "Tor" and "Anonymous" be (and anyone who thinks that "Tor" is keeping you anonymous on the internet - think again ...?
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