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Don't EVER go to file-sharing sites and download anything that is even suggestive of being "child porn"! Just Don't Do It! For example, if a file on one of the file-sharing sites, is named "ILLEGAL--little boy having sex with little girl" and you click on it to download it and look to see what it is all about, you just broke the law against "intent to download" illegal material, for which you have NO WAY to defend yourself or contest the charges, because you DID intend to download something that was clearly marked "illegal". All you could do at that point is to try to plea bargain the charges down so your sentence is not so draconian, or, more likely, just plead guilty and the story about you will probably never even make the news. The FBI promotes itself, to justify the huge budget it demands (and usually gets) from Congress. Just like large corporations take out big ads to blow their own trumpets to distract Joe Blow from the fact that the actions of the corporation causes the deaths of "innocent little children" blah, blah, blah, the FBI posts reports to make itself look good, as a form of public relations. The report you mention (I think I know the one you mean) tells how the FBI successfully arrested a bunch of "low-hanging fruit" that did one of two things: Downloaded, or "intended to download" (just by clicking) so-called "CSAM", and had not effectively disabled JavaScript in TOR (too complicated to explain here, but if JavaScript is disabled, most modern websites won't work, which led to so many complaints that the TOR developers took to just giving a warning, but enabling JavaScript by default) so LEO were able to trace them, OR Was a member of a site that was taken over by the FBI, who used nefarious semi-legal Israeli-developed software that allowed the FBI to push a small computer program onto the member's computer which would "call home" outside of the TOR network to expose the users real IP address, which was then "sufficient cause" for a search warrant to be issued, which -- no surprise -- would find kiddy porn and lead to the arrest and conviction of the person. BUT because the software is questionably legal, and top secret, clever defense lawyers have (successfully) challenged the fact that during the discovery phase, the FBI had not disclosed using that software and had not demonstrated that the software worked as they claimed it did, so the prosecutors would then drop the charges. I've read the reports from the FBI of arrests, the court transcripts of appellants claiming the arrests were not justified by the facts, and the mentions of the dismissals of the charges because the FBI would not give the requested details about the secret software, because they fear that then others could find ways to protect themselves, or disable the software. Google this: site:fbi.gov "csam" ... and you'll find many reports of arrests and convictions of people for downloading/possessing (so-called) "CSAM". Among those is sure to be the one that this poster is referring to. Which is, if you look deeply enough into it, "fake news". But the question remains -- why is this poster trying to alarm people unnecessarily to (supposed, imaginary) "risks" of using TOR? Is he like the ancient hunter-gatherer who comes back to the cave and tells the story of "the bear 50 feet tall" he heroically escaped from in order to impress the other tribes-people, until one of them demonstrates that the one making the claim had mistaken the distorted SHADOW of the bear to be a 50-foot-tall bear? At which point, the one who had made the claim would be exposed as "the boy who cried wolf" and his new stories would be laughed down. Which is EXACTLY what we should do with this DirkDerp dude. M. We should laugh at his feeble attempts to garner attention for himself by posting "fake news" stories about imaginary dangers... |