Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down Over 40 Porn Sites

[Zorra]

(NATIONAL) -- The group of computer hackers known as Anonymous has turned its attention from corporations long enough to attack and take down over 40 child porn websites run by pedophiles.

Included in the takedowns was one of the largest known such sites, "with account details of its 1589 users being posted online as evidence,” said Time.com and another report in artstechnica.com.

The attacks on the websites were reportedly an operation the group is calling “Operation Darknet,” a move by the hackers to eliminate child pornography on the Tor network.

Tor, which was originally developed as a way of protecting government communications by the U.S. Navy, now describes itself as “a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet.”

http://skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/HACKER-GROUP-ANONYMOUS-TAKES-DOWN-OVER-40-CHILD-PORN-SITES-874450

?nonymous is ?wesome!

[William769]

1. GOOD!

[limpyhobbler]

2. very good work!

[Laurian]

3. Excellent!

[Prophet 451]

4. Should probably have included the "CHILD" part in the headline

Nevertheless, good work them.

[greiner3]

21. "4. Should probably have included the "CHILD" part in the headline"

Damn straight! My poor heart skipped a beat until I read the entire OP.

Way to go Anonymous and keep your sights OFF of the GOOD porn sites!!!!!!!!

[ihavenobias]

25. Good Point

On the other hand the current headline will probably get more attention.

[EOTE]

27. Seriously, I was about to say: "Now they've gone too far!"

But good on them. They seem to be the Batman of the internet.

[gateley]

30. Agree. Reading the headline I just thought "why??" - but this is GOOD! nt

[justiceischeap]

5. I wish there would be a follow-up story on how many pop up after

the above are taken down... just to show on a larger scale how horrible this problem is.

[proverbialwisdom]

16. Have you seen the great work by http://protect.org/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trish-kinney/the-politics-of-child-pro_b_1171373.html

The Politics of Child Protection Led by a Motley Pirate Ship of Pissed Off People

Posted: 12/27/11 03:41 PM ET by Trish Kinney

To understand the mission set forth in the website http://protect.org/ one need only spend an hour or so with Grier Weeks, Executive Director of the National Association to Protect Children. Ask him how we got where he is and he will tell you that after 20 years of working on political campaigns, he became increasingly upset with every election cycle that no one seemed to care about fighting for kids. He reviewed a national manual on registered Political Action Committees, as thick as the New York yellow pages, and not one involved the protection of children. Weeks has no personal experience with the work to which he now devotes his life, but he once began making a list of family members and friends whose lives had been impacted by abuse. When the list got too long, he quit counting. His anger continued to simmer.

In 2001 Weeks met Andrew Vachss, a well credentialed attorney/author with a specialty in child protection. Vachss commented that if we had an NRA for kids, everything would change. And Protect was born. Organized as a 501©4, a non-profit single-issue social welfare organization, Protect works hand in hand with the National Association to Protect Children, a 501©3 charitable organization. Their mutual mainstream bi-partisan agenda is reflected in their common website, protect.org. Weeks has equal disdain for Republicans and Democrats who flat out refuse to stand up for kids waiting to be rescued from abuse, violence, and sex trafficking. He is fond of saying that when the house is burning down, you don't stop at the gate and interview the firefighters about their position on the issues, you put the fire out. He just wants politicians to take action.

Protect meets with elected officials to show them absolute proof of the horrific things taking place in their own districts. Promising to make them the conquering hero for interrupting these terrible crimes in progress, they still walk away. He continues to ask the smartest people he knows how this can be but so far has no answers he can accept. There are so many victims now that child abuse is no longer an aberration, it is the norm. Why aren't we all outraged? If law enforcement technology can tell us where these diabolical perpetrators are, why aren't we rushing out to get them? Weeks just can't make his peace with this shocking, even catastrophic social injustice.

Liberals who profess to be advocates for human rights and domestic violence are "criminally silent on this issue, almost complicit," says Weeks. "They are hopelessly conflicted as to issues that should be black and white." When confronted with child pornography on the internet and video, talk turns to first amendment rights and the sanctity of the internet. Child trafficking that takes place in Nepal or Thailand is a clear evil to them. But when a child is trafficked in Kansas or Chicago, they stay silent. It is "unforgiveable, despicable" and forces the conclusion that liberals cannot be taken seriously on anything they have to say on human rights. Weeks is "enormously frustrated."

More at link.

http://www.centredaily.com/2011/12/11/3016401/abuse-images-database-bigger-scandal.html#ixzz1gEuDvmoe

Abuse images database bigger scandal for state

By Grier Weeks
Posted: 12:01am on Dec 11, 2011

[Canuckistanian]

6. Why can't law enforcement agencies do the same thing?

I keep hearing about how "sophisticated" they are, identifying and capturing child porn rings, but never quite shutting them down completely.

Maybe they should hire Anonymous members to do that for them.

Oh, and BTW, how did you find an upside down "A"?

[treestar]

8. Interesting question

Probably they just think of it all as a criminal investigation, and are geared towards getting the evidence.

They have to prove it to a court before they shut it down. Maybe they have that authority after they get a conviction.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. ...

ǝɹǝɥ ob http://www.fliptext.org/

[notadmblnd]

7. it would be interesting to see who the clients are

[Kablooie]

18. Here's a website where you can meet the clients.

http://www.familywatchdog.us/

Just type in a zip code, click on a little square and a nice photo with name, address and other pertinent information is presented for your edification.

A Note: It is not recommended to treat this as a dating site.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. oh, you mean illegal stuff involving non-adults.

Excellent. By drawing a bright unequivocal line between that which is acceptable (material for and involving consenting adults) and that which is not (anything else) anonymous is displaying excellent internet citizenship and doing what, I suspect, technically challenged governments are seriously behind the curve on.

I'm sure the implied conflation in your OP headline with the vast majority of 'porn', which is by and for consenting adults, was a simple oversight. Right?

Nevertheless, on the off chance you're nurturing some kind of secret fantasy that anonymous is going to try to stop, or is even against, the legal adult variety of "porn", I'd say you haven't been over to 4chan lately.

[roguevalley]

10. they are my heroes

[xfundy]

12. NOW they've done it!

Just think how many "good christian" Publicans they pissed off with this one!

Excellent work!

Definitely, "child" should have been in the headline, though. Had me worrying they'd been taken over by Hackerz 4 Jeebus for a sec.

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Like I said, anyone who thinks anonymous is "anti-porn", has never been to 4chan.

What they clearly are, and rightly so- is anti anything not involving adults.

Unfortunately, some people always seem to have trouble distinguishing- either deliberately, or because they genuinely don't understand the difference- between the majority of material out there by and for consenting adults, and anything else.

[Raine]

13. Two BIG thumbs up

Keep up the good work!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. Standing Ovation for ANONYMOUS!

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Yeah!! Unfettered by legal time wasting, they can just jam the damn child porn sites. That is COOL!

[Spazito]

15. Well done, Anonymous!

I hope this is just the beginning and they keep going, keep shutting them down as fast as they pop up.

[valerief]

17. Excellent. Amazing why the govt won't do this. nt

[Occulus]

22. The authorities can't do it the way Anonymous does because it would taint the evidence

and the people running the sites would immediately go free, and probably have grounds for a successful civil case besides.

[MADem]

24. I think you hit the nail on the head, there. nt

[Poll_Blind]

19. 5200 Pentagon Employees Purchased Child Pornography - Pentagon will still Not respond to Congress

PB

[eShirl]

23. you'd think the DOJ might take an interest in this

or maybe they have

[Kellerfeller]

26. Well done! (nt)

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Zorra.

[quinnox]

29. Salute!

Well done, the more these creeps lose their rat holes the better, these guys who are into child porn are the scum of the earth.