An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the dark web - The Verge
'According to dark web researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis, Freedom Hosting II is smaller than its predecessor. '
'At the time, the service hosted as many as half of the websites accessible only through Tor, commonly referred to as the Dark Web. '
'The original Freedom Hosting was compromised by law enforcement in 2013, resulting in number of child pornography prosecutions. '
'An earlier report on the service found that it made up roughly 20 percent of dark web sites, including a number of bitcoin escrow services, Ponzi schemes and hacking forums. '
'Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. '
It has been speculated that Anonymous is actually the CIA, who I have very little trust in. If this were true, it would mean they might be trying to destroy evidence of their own involvement. If they were legitimately hacked, they would have screenshot everything, and passed it along to the FBI. If not, be suspicious.
yea, but here is just an hacker without name, they dont say he is linked to Anonymous...
edit: and for anonymous being linked to CIA, for sure there is some (secrets agents always infiltrate any dissidents groups, for use them, manipulate them etc), most of the anons know about it , what best for CIA or whatever agency to present themselves as "anonymous" or just put a hack on Anonymous, since its so loosely group that nobobdy will know for sure who is behind it...so you are right, and wrong too...since there is many anons groups that i believe have no ties at all with CIA etc, and hate them etc...there is too many groups and lone hackers anyway for CIA can control them all...but fur ur last part of ur comment u could be totally right...hard to know..
It makes more sense than Anonymous simply being some uncoordinated group of anarchist hackers. TPTB are never really held to account with any of the hacks. The hacks never seem to go far enough.
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derram ago
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'According to dark web researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis, Freedom Hosting II is smaller than its predecessor. '
'At the time, the service hosted as many as half of the websites accessible only through Tor, commonly referred to as the Dark Web. '
'The original Freedom Hosting was compromised by law enforcement in 2013, resulting in number of child pornography prosecutions. '
'An earlier report on the service found that it made up roughly 20 percent of dark web sites, including a number of bitcoin escrow services, Ponzi schemes and hacking forums. '
'Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. '
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Wolftrail7272 ago
It has been speculated that Anonymous is actually the CIA, who I have very little trust in. If this were true, it would mean they might be trying to destroy evidence of their own involvement. If they were legitimately hacked, they would have screenshot everything, and passed it along to the FBI. If not, be suspicious.
wh0care ago
yea, but here is just an hacker without name, they dont say he is linked to Anonymous...
edit: and for anonymous being linked to CIA, for sure there is some (secrets agents always infiltrate any dissidents groups, for use them, manipulate them etc), most of the anons know about it , what best for CIA or whatever agency to present themselves as "anonymous" or just put a hack on Anonymous, since its so loosely group that nobobdy will know for sure who is behind it...so you are right, and wrong too...since there is many anons groups that i believe have no ties at all with CIA etc, and hate them etc...there is too many groups and lone hackers anyway for CIA can control them all...but fur ur last part of ur comment u could be totally right...hard to know..
SayWhatNOWAY ago
God I hope is is not the CIA!
Sharipie ago
It makes more sense than Anonymous simply being some uncoordinated group of anarchist hackers. TPTB are never really held to account with any of the hacks. The hacks never seem to go far enough.
xenopriest ago
You're close
Wolftrail7272 ago
I think I understand what you're implying, and if I have the part wrong that I think I do, then this is huge, and good.
cantsleepawink ago
Ah, that's too cryptic for me. Any possibility of expanding on that ?
xenopriest ago
I believe the feds hacked, scrubbed the porn stuff out and released it for crowd sourcing who the users may be. Pretty smart idea.
cantsleepawink ago
I see. Thanks for replying.