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Well known hacking group Anonymous will be popular this week as they claim to have taken down 40 child pornography websites while publishing the names of 1,500 people involved. This happened around a week ago but has just surfaced at the weekend.
They posted statements on pastebin saying that they got the information by “browsing the Hidden Wiki we noticed a section called Hard Candy which was dedicated to links to child pornography. We then removed all links on the website, within 5 minutes the links were edited back in by an admin. For this reason, we will continue to make the Hidden Wiki unavailable.”
They said they targeted ‘Freedom Hosting' as the host of the largest collection of child pornography on the internet. Anonymous warned them that if they didn't take it down, they would be targeted. The company refused to remove the content.
At 11.30 pm CST “We infiltrated the shared hosting server of Freedom Hosting and shutdown services to all clients due to their lack of action to remove child pornography from their server.”
The hosting group then reinstated backups and got the sites running again. Anonymous retargeted the servers and took them all down again.
Anonymous say “The owners and operators at Freedom Hosting are openly supporting child pornography and enabling pedophiles to view innocent children, fueling their issues and putting children at risk of abduction, molestation, rape, and death.
For this, Freedom Hosting has been declared #OpDarknet Enemy Number One.
By taking down Freedom Hosting, we are eliminating 40+ child pornography websites, among these is Lolita City, one of the largest child pornography websites to date containing more than 100GB of child pornography.
We will continue to not only crash Freedom Hosting's server, but any other server we find to contain, promote, or support child pornography.”
Kitguru says: This will be one of their more popular moves in recent months, thats for sure. We don't think many people will have sympathy for these websites and the people who run them.
Good for them, its a sickness. Governments need to do more against these people.
Finally they’re putting their efforts to good use. I don’t approve of their ‘mass chaos’ approach to getting themselves noticed, but when they focus on taking down something that virtually everyone accepts as being wrong I’m all for it.
YES!
More power to these hackers. Hitting governments might be disruptive in an unhealthy way, but attacking the sick mofos is a great use of time and resource. Makes you wonder why Cameron and co are not interested in doing the same.
Great news. anonymous +1 for this !
Pfft. Another retarded thing they do, but now posing as heroes, oh the irony.
For those, notcurious enough, what they are targeting right now is a bunch of pretty harmless file storages (with not so harmless content, sure), which were sometimes used by FBI and such to hunt for actual offenders, not just curious or bored people looking at half-naked jailbaits, these “heroes” are “taking down”. Taking down stuff like this, in fact, may eneble those simply curious to search for more creating the problem. But who am i to argue with a bunch of retarded kids playing heroes
@Anemon
hate much ?
What have you done to help the world ?
Doesn’t matter what Anon does… YOU HATE IT.
move on troll.
Your posing as having a brain with deep thought is Fail.
Haters gonna hate. ( bet your American , Republican )
@lite
hah. nice motication you have there.heard similar one that justified witch hunts, nazism, 1917 revolution and such. “we have to doooo something. even if that means destroying someone else’s better plans and lives and indulging in something tha we have absolutely no idea”. Sure “helping the world” as good a synonym to “killing time” as anything else.
it will be a grim fun to see them destroy some longtime LEA operation with their “renegade tactics” of “hey let’s do something totally random, with this cool script i found on 4chan”