[tor-talk] dutch police crawling hidden servers

[Neuman1812]

http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2cofoq/that_awkward_moment_when_wired_completely_rips/


On 08/05/2014 10:31 AM, Rejo Zenger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://www.wired.com/2014/08/operation_torpedo/
>
>    "Operation Torpedo began with an investigation in the Netherlands in
>    August 2011. Agents at the National High Tech Crime Unit of the
>    Netherlands’ national police force had decided to crack down on online
>    child porn, according to an FBI affidavit. To that end, they wrote a web
>    crawler that scoured the Dark Net, collecting all the Tor onion
>    addresses it could find.
>
>    The NHTCU agents systematically visited each of the sites and made a
>    list of those dedicated to child pornography. Then, armed with a search
>    warrant from the Court of Rotterdam, the agents set out to determine
>    where the sites were located.
>
>    That, in theory, is a daunting task—Tor hidden services mask their
>    locations behind layers of routing. But when the agents got to a site
>    called “Pedoboard,” they discovered that the owner had foolishly left
>    the administrative account open with no password. They logged in and
>    began poking around, eventually finding the server’s real Internet IP
>    address in Bellevue, Nebraska."
>
> The operation is in known in the Netherlands by the name of Descartes.
> The name "Torpedo" was their internal nickname for the operation. The
> case was a followup to the Robert M.-case, one of the largest child
> abuse-cases in the Netherlands.
>
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