Atasas Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 Dark Web ‘Hidden Service’ Case Spawned Hundreds of Child Porn Investigations https://www.fbi.gov/image-repository/playpen-by-the-numbers.jpg/@@images/image/large The creator and lead administrator of what was believed to be the world’s largest child pornography website—with more than 150,000 users around the world—was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison. Steven W. Chase, 58, of Naples, Florida, created a website called Playpen in August 2014 on the Tor network, an open network on the Internet where users can communicate anonymously through “hidden service” websites—where criminal activity is not uncommon. Chase ran the Playpen website, where members uploaded and viewed tens of thousands of postings of young victims, indexed by age, sex, and the type of sexual activity involved. The case—and the thousands of follow-up investigations it has launched—is unprecedented in its scope and reach, FBI officials said. It represents the Bureau’s most successful effort to date against users of Tor’s hidden service sites. And it has opened new avenues for international cooperation in efforts to prosecute child abusers around the world. “We were only able to pull it off with a lot of support from our international partners and field offices,” said Special Agent Dan Alfin, who investigated the case as part of the Bureau’s Violent Crimes Against Children section. The case opened shortly after Steven Chase launched Playpen in the summer of 2014. The FBI, which has numerous investigations involving the dark web, quickly became aware of the site, but “given the nature of how Tor hidden services work, there was not much we could do about it,” Alfin recalled. That is, until December 2014, when Chase slipped up and revealed Playpen’s unique IP address—a location in the U.S. The gaffe was noticed by a foreign law enforcement agency, which notified the FBI. “From that point we took normal investigative steps—seized a copy of the website, served search warrants for e-mail accounts, followed the money—and everything led back to Steven Chase,” said Alfin. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/playpen-creator-sentenced-to-30-years “It’s the same with any criminal violation: As they get smarter, we adapt, we find them. It’s a cat-and-mouse game, except it’s not a game. Kids are being abused, and it’s our job to stop that.” Dan Alfin, special agent, FBI Violent Crimes Against Children Section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrAKeN Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 FBI: Playpen takedown resulted in hundreds of US-based arrests, even more overseas. Steven Chase—creator of the world’s most notorious darknet child pornography site, Playpen—was sentenced to 30 years in prison earlier this week. By comparison, his two co-defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 20 years each earlier this year for their involvement in Playpen. According to the plea agreement of one of Chase’s co-defendants, David Browning, Playpen hosted 215,000 user accounts and distributed 50,000 images and videos of child pornography before the site was taken down. A Friday press release published by the FBI notes that Chase launched the website in the summer of 2014, and the FBI rapidly began an investigation. However, the FBI was stymied by the fact that the site was hosted on a Tor-hidden service for a few months. But the feds eventually caught a lucky break and received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency, which included Chase’s true IP address. "From that point we took normal investigative steps—seized a copy of the website, served search warrants for e-mail accounts, followed the money—and everything led back to Steven Chase," said FBI Special Agent Dan Alfin in the Friday statement. The statement also touted the fact that as a result of the Playpen bust, hundreds of people in the US have been arrested, dozens more were prosecuted, and 55 American children have been "successfully identified or rescued." More than 500 additional people associated with the site have been arrested overseas. However, the statement did not describe how the FBI seized Playpen's server in North Carolina in February 2015. The agency then ran the site and used malware for two additional weeks to monitor its users. In a handful of instances since, the government has dropped prosecutions rather than disclose the malware source code it used to discover the true IP addresses of Playpen users. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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radeonxt Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 Good riddance to all of you pedos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dufus Posted May 6, 2017 Share Posted May 6, 2017 FORMER Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath was “120 per cent” a genuine paedophile, according to a police chief investigating the sex allegations against the late Tory leader. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/769201/Tory-PM-Sir-Edward-Heath-120-per-cent-genuine-paedophile-Wiltshire-police-Veale-Saville Prince Andrew flew on paedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein’s private 'sex' jet http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-andrew-flew-paedophile-pal-5037951 Paedophile Clement Freud knew what happened to Madeleine McCann, says rape victim Vicky Haynes only reported the horrific abuse to police four years ago after Kate McCann's book about her little girl's disappearance revealed the MP had befriended the family at his £1 million holiday villa in Praia da Luz, Portugal - just down the road from the hotel Maddie vanished from. http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/681098/Paedophile-MP-Clement-Fraud-Madeleine-McCann-Kate-Gerry-Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted May 6, 2017 Author Share Posted May 6, 2017 As much as hate perverts child abusers and other, I have to admit, that the creator might not have been 30 year jail worth, he could have just run the site... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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