"It has been almost two years since HSI launched Operation Delego, targeting Dreamboard community.."

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It has been almost two years since HSI launched Operation Delego, targeting the Dreamboard community. Here's the background:

Dreamboard was a members-only online bulletin board created and operated to encourage the sexual abuse of young children in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement detection. Dreamboard members traded graphic images and videos of adults raping children. Prospective members had to create and share these crime-scene images to gain entry into the group and to maintain membership once accepted. Dreamboard members employed a variety of measures designed to conceal their criminal activity from detection by law enforcement. Members communicated using aliases rather than their actual names and content posted on Dreamboard was encrypted with a password shared only with other members. Members also employed proxy servers to route the group’s Internet traffic through other computers in an attempt prevent law enforcement from tracing Internet activity.

And here's the update:

More than 70 individuals have been charged as a result of Operation Delego. Fifty-seven of these individuals have been arrested; 47 defendants have pleaded guilty for their roles in the conspiracy, and an additional defendant was convicted after a trial. Fifteen of the 72 charged individuals remain at large and are known only by their online identities. HSI continues to investigate the case in an effort to identify and apprehend these remaining individuals.

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More backstory:
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1108/110803washingtondc.htm
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1205/120523washingtondc.htm

HSI = Homeland Security Investigations
HSI is a founding member and current chair of the Virtual Global Taskforce ( http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com ), an international alliance of law enforcement agencies and private industry sector partners working together to prevent and deter online child sexual abuse.

Related recent press releases:
http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/index.htm?top25=no&year=all&month=all&state=all&topic=13