from Hacker News

FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images

by adidash on 1/24/16, 4:05 PM with 1 comments

  • by kafkaesq on 1/25/16, 5:18 PM

    Something to keep in mind:

    In each case, the FBI injected the site with malware to crack Tor’s anonymity.

    Those hacks, developed with the help of outside contractors, were a technical milestone. When the FBI first realized it could break through Tor, Hosko said the agency gathered counterterrorism investigators and intelligence agencies to see if any of them had a more pressing need for the software. “It was this, exponentially,” Hosko said.