![]() ![]() They leaked a list of more than 1,500 Lolita City usernames, and crashed Lolita City's web host-a popular dark net outfit called Freedom Hosting. ![]() "We decided to seek media attention for this operation so that we may get the resources needed to shut them down on a more permanent basis."Īs part of their campaign, the hackers infiltrated the members-only board with fake accounts then uploaded scores of clips of "To Catch a Predator," masquerading as child porn. "We have been targeting them in secret for a while now, taking down their servers as much as possible," one hacker named Arson told us in a chat. Where Anonymous is often portrayed as dangerous cybercriminals, these hackers wanted to go after criminals themselves. It also attracted the attention of the team of about a half-dozen vigilante Anonymous hackers now attacking Lolita City. ![]() Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable The underground drug market Silk Road we profiled this summer also uses TOR the illict activity on the dark net recently attracted the attention of New York senator Chuck Schumer, who demanded the DEA shut down Silk Road. In August, Dutch authorities took down four child porn forums on TOR run by 27-year-old Robert Mikelsons. TOR is primarily aimed at protecting activists from oppressive governments, and ensuring privacy for normal internet users.īut it's also become a favorite tool of cybercriminals, hackers, pedophiles and drug dealers. The dark net has sprung up around a service called TOR, which lets anyone host websites and browse the web anonymously with an easy-to-use suite of software. Lolita City lives on the "dark net," a sort of shadow internet hidden from most internet users. They're using hacking tools with nicknames like "Chris Hansen"-after the NBC "To Catch a Predator" host-to bring down the forum and identify users. Since the beginning of October, a group of hackers associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous have waged war on an underground forum called Lolita City, where hundreds of users openly trade child porn. Now hackers are going after pedophiles hiding in the so-called dark net. Just below the surface of the internet sits a network of hidden websites home to some of the worst stuff imaginable. ![]()
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