The post on the Tor blog has said that, “The current news indicates that someone has exploited the software behind Freedom Hosting. And anonymity has become a prime commodity after massive data gathering programmes like PRISM and other cyber spying initiatives came to light. The US government managed to crack a Tor Network site, which is a big deal because many whistleblowers, media houses, and activists use the service in the pursuit of anonymity. While the take-down is definitely an important one, because it deals with a sensitive topic like child pornography, there are some security concerns. The post added that “multiple hidden service hosting companies appears to be down”. US government shuts down child pornography site using possible vulnerablity in Firefox OS.Ī post on the Tor Project blog said that, “around midnight on August 4th we were notified by a few people that a large number of hidden service addresses have disappeared from the Tor Network”.
According to the FBI, Marques is reportedly the “largest facilitator of child porn on the planet.” It is important to point out that Tor project had no connection to Freedom Hosting, or any other site that the company ran on it. The company that he runs, Freedom Hosting, disappeared from the network following the take-down, according to a Tor post put up on the official blog. One of the principal suspects in the take-down, Ireland-based Eric Eoin Marques, is reportedly facing extradition to the US, according to the Independent. The Firefox version was released last year in November, and Mozilla is current investigating the vulnerability in the same. According to the report, authorities were able to get inside the software using a vulnerability in the security within Mozilla’s Firefox 17 browsers. Tor is a Web service that allows users to surf the Internet anonymously by rerouting the traffic requests across its network. This was possible after a programme successfully cracked the security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting.Ī report by security expert Brian Krebs shows that US authorities were able to crack the software behind a site hosted by Tor.
New reports show that the US government was able to take down one of the Internet’s largest child porn sites. The topic of pornography and the stance that many governments are taking against it has been in the news for a while now.
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