An additional 13,000 links to child pornography were posted during the FBI’s administration of the site. By its own admission, the FBI said 9,000 images and 200 videos were made available by Playpen users while it operated the site from February 20 to March 4, 2015. But over that fortnight, the website’s performance improved and membership increased 30%, according to counsel for an administrator of Playpen, Steven Chase, who was eventually sentenced to 30 years for six counts related to the sharing and advertisement of child abuse content. For two weeks, police launched malicious code at visitors that would attempt to uncloak their IP address and, subsequently, their identity. The site was hosted on Tor, widely known as the dark Web, where users’ identities are obscured by layers of encryption. The most controversial facilitation of child pornography occurred in February 2015, when the Department of Justice seized and ran Playpen. ( Forbes could not find court documents showing how the police benefitted from that access). In 2008, investigators took control of a suspect’s Yahoo account, and in 2009, the FBI acquired access to a real user account on a peer-to-peer file-sharing service. In two previous public cases, both looking into child abuse material crimes, police presented suspects with “consent to assume online identity” forms. The government, though, believes taking control of suspects’ online personas is sometimes worth it. “Abused children should not be used as bait.”

government on child exploitation and internet safety. Forbesĭistributing images of children being sexually abused violates their privacy and puts them at risk of being harmed again, said John Carr, a consultant who worked for Microsoft and the U.K. that agent continued to operate the groups of the suspect and further spread child pornography. An FBI search warrant shows how an agent assumed the online identity of a pedophile.

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