Results of operation against child exploitation enterprise on Tor network

&quot;[...]the Darknet’s Onion Router, also known as Tor&quot;<p>Dear me. That would sound quite insidious, and possibly coherent, to someone with population average knowledge about TOR. So the DHS is telling us this Tor is something dark and sinister and used by exploitative paedophiles.<p>I wonder what comes next..

Let me start off by saying I in no way agree with the content of the website that was shutdown. With that said. I assuming that if the government can track and shut a website using tor that other governments can track and shutdown political activist websites as well. so much for tor.

I&#x27;m not going to lie, at the heart of this story is good news. Tor has consistently been a save heaven for child exploitation. This news is fantastic considering that these were genuine criminals that have been stopped and victims contacted. For once, I&#x27;m happy with DHS.

More discussion on reddit (including links to some of the indictments): <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/20rq0l/authorities_bust_tor_child_porn_ring_unrelated_to/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;TOR&#x2F;comments&#x2F;20rq0l&#x2F;authorities_bust...</a> <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/20qzi6/pedophile_ring_that_operated_through_tor_nabbed/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;onions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;20qzi6&#x2F;pedophile_rin...</a><p>Note that this seems to be unrelated to the Freedom Hosting exploit---I still wonder when we will see the results of that.

Excellent, give them nowhere to hide and long prison sentences. I hope they rot.

It&#x27;s time to shut down Tor once and for all. I hear Al-Qaeda is using it, too!

Can someone explain why this falls under DHS and not the FBI?

Good job well done. Always feels better to work without competitors, right Haliburton?

I&#x27;m surprised I&#x27;ve not read &quot;they were tricking young teenagers in sending pornographic materials in 4chan&#x2F;b&#x2F; rate-my-penis threads&quot;.

It bothers me that you can be arrested for just being a member of a website.