How the world’s largest child porn marketplace was undone by a right-click

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How the world’s largest child porn marketplace was undone by a right-click

Users included an ICE investigator, a member of the US Border Patrol, a US Air Force reservist, and a previous offender in Washington, D.C. found with 455,000 hours of video downloaded from the site, or almost 52 years worth of footage.
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The South Korean operator of the world’s largest dark web child pornography file-sharing site has been indicted by US prosecutors, according to documents unsealed yesterday in federal court.

Jong Woo Son, 23, is already serving an 18-month prison sentence in South Korea on related charges. The site he allegedly ran, Welcome To Video, was accessible only on the anonymized Tor network. But the site’s administrator was sloppy. According to court filings, US investigators simply right-clicked on Welcome To Video’s homepage, selected “View Page Source,” and instantly had what they needed.

“In reviewing the source code, law enforcement discovered that Welcome To Video had failed to conceal its server’s IP address,” says a forfeiture complaint filed this week by US authorities. The IP address was registered in Son’s name, and resolved to a server located in his bedroom. On it, authorities discovered about 250,000 videos showing children, toddlers, and infants being sexually abused. At least 23 minors were identified and rescued as a result of the investigation.
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I guess being a grosse pervert makes you grossely stupid too....
 
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