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.
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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.
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.