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. According to the Tor Project’s own metrics, the service has recently been averaging over 400,000 users per day. 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 .īecause 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. The Tor network also hosts a private “dark” top-level domain. “Among these is Lolita City, one of the largest child pornography websites to date, containing more than 100GB of child pornography.”īased 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. “By taking down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites,” Anonymous claimed in its statement.
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. The takedown is part of Anonymous’ Operation Darknet, an anti-child-pornography effort aimed at thwarting child pornographers operating on on the Tor network.
Lolita City, a child pornography site run on over a concealed “ darknet,” has been taken down by Anonymous members, and account details of 1,589 users from the site’s database were posted as evidence. Pedophiles connecting to a concealed child pornography site got an unwelcome surprise last week, courtesy of the hacktivist group Anonymous.
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