Steven Chase—creator of the world’s most notorious darknet child pornography site...

>Steven Chase—creator of the world’s most notorious darknet child pornography site, Playpen—was sentenced to 30 years in prison earlier this week.
>By comparison, his two co-defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 20 years each earlier this year for their involvement in Playpen. According to the plea agreement of one of Chase’s co-defendants, David Browning, Playpen hosted 215,000 user accounts and distributed 50,000 images and videos of child pornography before the site was taken down.
>A Friday press release published by the FBI notes that Chase launched the website in the summer of 2014, and the FBI rapidly began an investigation. However, the FBI was stymied by the fact that the site was hosted on a Tor-hidden service for a few months. But the feds eventually caught a lucky break and received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency, which included Chase’s true IP address.
>"From that point we took normal investigative steps—seized a copy of the website, served search warrants for e-mail accounts, followed the money—and everything led back to Steven Chase," said FBI Special Agent Dan Alfin in the Friday statement.
>The statement also touted the fact that as a result of the Playpen bust, hundreds of people in the US have been arrested, dozens more were prosecuted, and 55 American children have been "successfully identified or rescued." More than 500 additional people associated with the site have been arrested overseas.
>However, the statement did not describe how the FBI seized Playpen's server in North Carolina in February 2015. The agency then ran the site and used malware for two additional weeks to monitor its users. In a handful of instances since, the government has dropped prosecutions rather than disclose the malware source code it used to discover the true IP addresses of Playpen users.

Sup Forums ABSOLUTELY BTFO LOL
YOUR LINUX DISTROS WON'T SAVE YOU.

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>arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/creator-of-infamous-playpen-website-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison/

if the fbi wants you, you'd better be in the middle east or frozen at the top of canada because just using a distro or tor won't save you

>implying windows or osx is more secure
If someone wants to get you they will do it regardless of what technology you use.

Once again going to show we don't need to compromise encryption or increase surveillance to conduct law enforcement. Just need law enforcement doing ground work.

>used malware
Who would be stupid enough to download shit from a CP site?
Apparently those fuckers.

>pedos are fucking dumb
is this news?

I thought traditional FBI investigative methods no longer worked due to military grade encryption?

Tor is full of flaws because of the design of the network and how it routes you and how the US government owns most of the nodes

What else are they going to do on a CP site?

Even if they didn't actively download files there are still ways to get exploits onto computers through the browser, even better when they can do it from the host of the site people are visiting because scripts are more likely to be allowed.

>the feds eventually caught a lucky break and received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency, which included Chase’s true IP address.
Seems legit.

I knew a guy who got busted with CP.... he was an IT professional and he had it stored on his WORK LAPTOP

i'm no computer genius but how the fuck do you go to college for all that shit, work in the field, and then go out and download CP and save it to your work computer?

he was in his 40's and claims he was innocent but they basically forced him to plead guilty. i don't believe him lol

Shhh.

THANK YOU BASED FBI

Either framed or

You can tell it's compromised by the way it is

I'm not trying to be one of those guys who think pedos should die or a pedo apologist but they really should have just given them life sentences, even when they do get out of jail, they'll never hold a job or have friends, so what's the fucking point?

It's honestly cruel to not give them life.

Everyday I am thankful to God that he gave me a MILF fetish

People like that are beaten up and sometimes killed in prison
I think a life of suffering like that would be worse than life outside

Russia probably.

>middle east
they don't need cp
they can do it in real life legally

they got 1500 IPs off of 50,000 connections
good odds on it just being another javascript exploit

The Russian GDP is made of 25% CP.
More likely the NSA.

Can confirm. Dad was in prison. Pedos and child rapists were automatically put in isolation for their own safety.

One guy successfully petitioned to be put in gen pop. They caused a distraction for the guards in another part of the prison, then a few guys started anal raping the pedo, supposedly got like 10 minutes in before a guard was able to respond. Once the game was up, the last guy shanked him in the spinal cord in the neck and kept raping him until his eyes stopped moving.

>look at a combination of colored light emitting diodes
>get anally raped and killed
hmmm

Nah, this wasn't just a CP guy. He was supposedly raping his and his neighbor's daughter for like 5 years.

This is the first time we've made America great again

Also this

>implying it's as simple as looking at a combination of colored light emitting diodes

>The statement also touted the fact that as a result of the Playpen bust, hundreds of people in the US have been arrested, dozens more were prosecuted, and 55 American children have been "successfully identified or rescued." More than 500 additional people associated with the site have been arrested overseas.

so only content creators were targeted?

You're increasing the demand by being a consumer.
Fuck all of them.

This

...

>The agency then ran the site and used malware for two additional weeks to monitor its users. In a handful of instances since, the government has dropped prosecutions rather than disclose the malware source code it used to discover the true IP addresses of Playpen users.
Lol. Windows REKT

Good thing I don't use JavaShit or download iffy shit while I'm on Tor - or even been on that site for that matter.

I wonder how that foreign agency got the information the did, and what it was.

> LINUX DISTROS
Good thing I use OpenBSD :^)

well of course, you're not a murderer if you run a gore website

but I guess if you like to watch it so much up to the point to make an account in a shady website just to get more, you're probably one step away from being a pedo

see

Tor is not that secure of a network when the nodes are owned largely by single organizations.

There's lots of attacks to figure out who is sending stuff over the network, but it requires owning lots of nodes.

this. crime neutrality when>

Nah, if all you did was look at CP, you'll probably be recruited by the white nationalists as a vagina.

>FBI investigative methods no longer worked due to military grade encryption?
>feds eventually caught a lucky break and received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency, which included Chase’s true IP address.
they apparently didnt

>Military Grade Encryption

Encryption doesn't protect you from being a dumbass.

Was probably using a VPN in Russia and got busted through that.

I'll go post this on Sup Forums and see how the pedophiles defend it. Based police always catch the degenerates.

Please, it was a lucky break.

Real and heterosexual post.

>increasing the demand by being a consumer
the only thing increasing the demand is sexier children

/thread

>215,000 accounts
>convict the owners and only manage to prosecute dozens of users.
>dozens of users.
>215,000 accounts
>Based police always catch the degenerates.

no

this
>ITT: dumbfucks trusting Tor
>literally dev'ed for military and 3-letter agencies
>core developer appelbaum got btfo and ((demoralized)) (just like Assange rape meme)
>project is now run by 3-letter agents
>trusting cloudflare/internet
>cloudflare captcha on anonymous network
majority of tor honeypots requires running of non-free javascript so you'll get owned if you're using defaults.
if I'm correct the infosec pedos are on usenet

>Playpen hosted 215,000 user accounts
fucking amateur hour over here

Don't downplay what happened, they still caught the owner, whom has access to ALL of the material. This means that even many more children can be identified.

Windows 12 confirmed

>YOUR LINUX DISTROS WON'T SAVE YOU.
I use linux because it doesn't have ads or recommend me software. Also I wonder what was so hush hush about the source code of the malware. Sounds cool.

he's already been indicted, tried, and convicted. the investigation is over.
this case is years old, theyve IDed as many children as theyre going to.

also thats not how you use "whom"

>also thats not how you use "whom"

What? Whom is short for "who may"

>wankers getting 30 years of prison

seems fair. not an scapegoat to justify government's mass spionage at all.

It's still a case of only the big fish getting caught.

There are too many pedophiles to catch them all, you take down one site and another pops up and what has really happened at the end of the day?

>forced him to plead guilty
Unless they did so at gunpoint, I wouldn't believe it. If you're not guilty, under no circumstances should you ever plead guilty. There is no way that it could improve your situation.

>what has really happened at the end of the day?

Their morale is diminished, remember Freedom Hosting?

They will be slow and cautious, the police are winning. We need pedophiles to know that they aren't safe to post that shit on the deepweb OR anywhere.

That's a rather defeatist attitude. What is law enforcement supposed to do?

i have no face

>What is law enforcement supposed to do?
Distribute CP until everyone's sick of it.
Reverse psychology is what they call it.

we need law enforcement resources invested in real crime.

fapping to pixels on a screen is nothing

>Whom is short for "who may"
im at a loss for words

There is really nothing for them to do but keep doing what they're doing.

>the police are winning.
They really aren't though.

all you fucks ITT advocating this shit need professional help. I sincerely hope you seek counseling and aim to overcome this issue

>fapping to pixels on a screen is nothing
Intellectualize the problem all you want

>The agency then ran the site and used malware for two additional weeks to monitor its users

>im at a loss for words
grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-complicated-as-you-might-think/

Dude, calm down, I was just kidding. I'm so fucking happy that you know proper grammar.

kek. that's precisely how i imagine them.

>What? Whom is short for "who may"
the state of neo/g/ everyone
i'm past being upset, i'm curious to see just how much further it's possible to take this

huehue so funny, I made a typo and now you want to ride my cock.

Here, have a ==SAGE==

Mad introvert spotted

>im at a loss for words
How about "whom"?

>grammarly.com/blog/who-vs-whom-its-not-as-complicated-as-you-might-think/

get that weak shit outta here and boss yo life up
theoatmeal.com/comics/who_vs_whom

A typo is a error in writing that is unintentional.
If you intentionally use the wrong word, thinking it is the/a correct word to use then you are simply incorrect.

>If you intentionally use the wrong word, thinking it is the/a correct word to use then you are simply incorrect.

okay.

im mostly at a loss because although it sounds like nonsense at face value, who am I to say that's not how it was derived 500 years ago and I'm actually the brainlet

like that "i know i know nothing" guy

kill yourself nigger

What happened to rotor browser?

>using the smiley with a carat nose

>The agency then ran the site and used malware for two additional weeks to monitor its users. In a handful of instances since, the government has dropped prosecutions rather than disclose the malware source code it used to discover the true IP addresses of Playpen users.

christ this shit should be illegal
not that i feel bad for these pedos in the slightest but "whoops we broke the law, don't worry we'll drop a few of these cases, really it's nbd"

not to speak of the vast majority of users that i'm sure were identified in court by parallel construction schemes despite having fallen victim to said malware

>Sup Forums paedos on suicide watch
lmao, nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

>>Sup Forums paedos on suicide watch
ill break this down for you
>215,000 users
>500 arrests
>100 indictments
>10 convictions
>3 prison sentences

im more fearful tonight is the night I swallow a spider in my sleep

if the people who were caught had all their shit on an encrypted laptop and only used public wifi (ie, not home connection) they probably would still be out there.

I still think anyone with CP should be killed, but if they had any brains at all they could easily avoid being caught. Server hosting is going to be difficult, but possible if you know what you are doing.

Completely untrue. Stacked evidence against you (even untrue evidence, faked evidence, or planted evidence) only has to convince a jury.

If you are in a situation where you're getting totally fucked over because you're innocent but you given the choice between a plea deal to avoid prison or get sentenced to 20+ (where you WILL be murdered, because retarded inmates think they are somehow moral for killing pedos)

that's a long post there. just admit that you're an introvert m8. no one get's that angry because of a single word misuse.
you mean the windows-only copycat of tor with ascii art website?
except ((they)) or your enemies can implant evidence to ruin your life.
cp is being weaponized. they can easily wipe you off the grid by ((pulling the strings)) (backdoor)

>you mean the windows-only copycat of tor with ascii art website?
yep

didn't it crash? did it ever RC0?

>that's a long post there. just admit that you're an introvert m8
dont get me wrong I am aggressively autistic, thats what brought me here. dont tell me Sup Forums is filled with fucking normies

The FBI used an NSA-purchased, Zerodium-brokered 0day vulnerability in Firefox ESR as used in the Tor Browser Bundle, which was sent to users who had logged in to the Playpen forum.

The intent was to infect computers running Windows and the Tor Browser Bundle and send a ping to the FBI servers linking their forum ID with their real IP address and other identifying information.

Not particularly. Not all of them are, unfortunately, but they will always be able to get the ones who are, one way or another.

False, false, and false.

(t. I have been involved in the development of anonymous networks for over 20 years)

Agreed. I had heard the admin was found not via technical means but because he made a very stupid OPSEC failure. However, I don't really know.

I fully support the prosecution and conviction of this guy. I really hate these people. If there were a way to get them off networks and still have the networks censorship-resistant, that would be wonderful, but also of course magical and self-contradictorily impossible, that's just me defining the terms of censorship which isn't OK either.

However, there were numerous forensic and ethical failures in the process beyond that: the "beacon" communicated insecurely, with no authentication or integrity protection; there is no forensic chain indicating it could have run other code; the FBI refuse to disclose the vulnerability, even though it has in fact already been fixed, and have dropped cases to try to keep it secret, thus going against the mission parameters; and continuing to run a site actively distributing and incentivising the creation of new CP (i.e. actively involved in child abuse) is in my opinion much much worse than dealing drugs as an undercover cop - it's extremely ethically troubling, and unnecessary to the operation as a whole.

True. They tend to have special units for them; other prisoners will put ground glass in their food, etc.

You need to chill m8.
Have a green tea

>need to chill
>have some caffeine
there's just no pleasing you

Or be in Russia

bullet is caffeine free

All globalists and Rothschilds are pedos and they are not dumb.

this or some absurd API that allows the browser to fingerprint (like webrtc and xgd-like APIs)

Pedo genocide when

>they aren't safe to post that shit on the deepweb OR anywhere.

The downside of that is, the actual molesters just don't get caught.
All the shit they do and record stays hidden away and traded very privately like it was before the internet when people rarely went to jail for doing this stuff with kids.
Practically every other family has grandpas and uncles and shit going back generations who molested/raped half the kids in the family and it all stayed a secret for too long and they wind up never paying.

Also why don't actually child molesters get this much prison time?
Why are they just run through the system and released into back into our neighborhoods?
I'm not as worried about the asshole running some tor site as I am about the actual child predators who's houses kids are walking past on the way to school everywhere.
There's a shit load of them and they almost always re-offend.

Thry don't think they're moral. A good number of prisoner types were abused as kids so they take it out on the pedos and rapists