German police say they have shut down a “dizzyingly large” child sexual abuse image website with hundreds of thousands of users. Six people with links to the network were arrested.
Ok, but WHICH site did they take down? Any names or links?
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Any name of the website, for reference, or any links to further statements? Just because our police claim they achieved something does not mean I believe them at all. And even if they actually took down something, a forum style site very likely means all content was hosted externally. Essentially, the site could be rebuilt in a few days in that case.
Just stating “we took down some bad CP site” without ANY further explanation is worthless, because websites and especially darknet services are much more complicated than there being a single server, you plug that off and you saved the day. If “the internet never forgets”, the darknet even gains from such events. Each piece of content will be locally stored by at least a dozen of the hundreds of thousand of members. And after that, it will be uploaded to new services (if it wasn’t just spread out to dozens of 3rd parties anyway), and more people will download it. So the situation could be worse now. Doesn’t matter for the stats and publicity of course. But being able to comprehend their claims and actions would at least give one either the satisfaction that cops achieved something and those fuckers were taken down, or another reason for facepalm.
The most important thing with such an event here is transparency. And in history, recently and nearly a century ago, it’s not like blindly believing cops was a good option.
Not to take away from the joke or the implication, but I’m pretty sure the info is useless now. Just like knowing about Silk Road.
That said, I have no idea what value they could get from having an answer.
