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Beyond the web we use every day there is a lawless underworld of child abuse and black marketeering that is difficult for authorities to investigate, Christopher Williams reports.
A rare shaft of light has shone on one of the darkest corners of the internet in recent days. A latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, it is a place where rape and murder are openly advertised, and earthly authorities appear almost powerless to intervene.
This is the lawless world of darknets and specifically the Hidden Wiki, a site that isn't on the web, that nobody reaches directly from Google and that can only be accessed using special tools.
This digital underworld has come to the attention of law-abiding web users thanks to an illegal, if arguably not immoral, act. Last week, Anonymous, a self-styled digital protest movement, hacked into Lolita City, a website advertised on the Hidden Wiki that offered gigabytes of images of child abuse to paying paedophiles.
Anonymous ââ¬Åhacktivistsââ¬Â first approached the company hosting Lolita City and demanded it remove the abhorrent material. When their demands were ignored, they launched a two-pronged digital assault, forcing the hosting company offline and breaching the security of Lolita Cityââ¬â¢s systems to publicly expose the login details of more than 1,500 paedophiles.
ââ¬ÅIt does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target,ââ¬Â Anonymous said.
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ki-an-internet-underworld-of-child-abuse.html
A rare shaft of light has shone on one of the darkest corners of the internet in recent days. A latter-day Sodom and Gomorrah, it is a place where rape and murder are openly advertised, and earthly authorities appear almost powerless to intervene.
This is the lawless world of darknets and specifically the Hidden Wiki, a site that isn't on the web, that nobody reaches directly from Google and that can only be accessed using special tools.
This digital underworld has come to the attention of law-abiding web users thanks to an illegal, if arguably not immoral, act. Last week, Anonymous, a self-styled digital protest movement, hacked into Lolita City, a website advertised on the Hidden Wiki that offered gigabytes of images of child abuse to paying paedophiles.
Anonymous ââ¬Åhacktivistsââ¬Â first approached the company hosting Lolita City and demanded it remove the abhorrent material. When their demands were ignored, they launched a two-pronged digital assault, forcing the hosting company offline and breaching the security of Lolita Cityââ¬â¢s systems to publicly expose the login details of more than 1,500 paedophiles.
ââ¬ÅIt does not matter who you are, if we find you to be hosting, promoting, or supporting child pornography, you will become a target,ââ¬Â Anonymous said.
Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...ki-an-internet-underworld-of-child-abuse.html
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