Tor is compromised according to brazilian federal police

Federal Police arrests 51 suspects of integrating a pedophilia network.

"It is not illicit to access the deep web, there is no crime. There are people who use this mechanism to commit crimes and believe to be protected. But to be true, they are not so protected.", explains the head of Federal Police Rafael França.

"The federal police of Porto Alegre developed a way to identify and track people who use a kind of internet underworld. In one year of investigation more than 90 people in Brazil who shared child sex images and videos were identified."

Source, text and video(portuguese): http://g1.globo.com/jornal-nacional/noticia/2014/10/policia-federal-prende-51-suspeitos-de-integrar-rede-de-pedofilia.html

A Brazilian police spokesman said they arrested 55 people during a year-long operation and issued 100 arrest warrants.

Operation "Darknet" found child pornography made in Brazil being shared in five other countries.

Police found suspects in Portugal, Italy, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.

Only the FBI in the United States and Scotland Yard in London have managed to crack into the Dark Web to trawl for pornography before and Brazil has been following their techniques, police said.

Source in english: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29639241


Comments


[28 Points] None:

good riddance


[14 Points] reject9:

they should focus on this instead of some kid down the road who just wants some weed.


[9 Points] bromadol:

Nowhere does it say tor is comprised. Says people aren't as anonymous as they think but that could mean a lot of tings


[5 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

Tor itself isn't broken. Most likely it was something very similar to how they did the Freedom Hosting takedown, by compromising the hosting server and causing people to download malware that loads a call-home cookie onto the user's machine.


[5 Points] Simbamatic:

All of a sudden ordering a bunch of drugs online seems pretty fucking innocent.

I really have zero comprehension as to what these people get out of that shit. Disgusting.


[3 Points] None:

Don't wanna get my hopes up but do they actually take CP more seriously than drugs? That would be somewhat relieving to hear...certainly doesn't seem to be the case here in the US-eh.


[1 Points] young_k:

I always new the brazilian federali's were the best and most up to date in IT and cyber crime...


[-6 Points] None:

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[-21 Points] Digatmebro:

ELI5: Can pedophilia be one of the root causes of homosexuality? Old guys preying on teenage boys?