Brazil busts

[dreamer]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795299/brazilian-police-crack-open-haul-child-pornography-dark-internet-rescue-six-children-abuse.html [clearnet, Tor-safe, turn scripts off, full text quoted below]

Anyone know which sites were busted? I know there was banana russa or whatever a while ago and now it's down. Was that the one?

[Chairman]

Brazilian police have uncovered a huge ring operating on the 'dark internet' - a seething matrix of encrypted websites allowing users to browse with complete anonymity.

The year-long 'Operation Darknet' uncovered a large haul of child pornography that had been made in Brazil and was being distributed in four other countries.

The operation has so far led to the arrests of 55 people, with police issuing a further 100 arrest and search warrants and suspects found in Portugal, Italy, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.

Operation Darknet was launched simultaneously in 18 Brazilian states and the federal district of Brasilia last year.

During the year-long investigation, six children were rescued from suspected rapists and abusers.

At a press conference in Rio, Chief of Police of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Sandro Luciano Caron, said: 'We managed to identify people who were trying to distribute child pornography materials and also those who have abused children.'

More than 90 people who shared the child porn images have so far been identified, with the majority of them known child abusers, he added.

Until now, only the FBI and Scotland Yard have managed to break into the dark internet, but Caron said Brazilian police have since been able to adopt the same investigative techniques.

Caron said a number of harrowing details emerged during the investigation, including one man who allegedly started planning the abuse of his child while his unsuspecting wife was still pregnant.

The nature and extent of some of the abuse shocked and horrified even the most experienced officers involved in the investigation, he added.

Operation Darknet is considered the latest example of South American governments finally starting to address the problem of the sexual exploitation of children.

Earlier this week Colombia broke up a child-trafficking operation in which children as young as 12 are believed to have been smuggled out of the country for sex. Seven people were arrested.

I do not believe this has been linked to anything particular as of yet.  There is a chance they are combining the Tropical Cuties bust with this, though they were busted from Deli talking, not from anything on Tor.  Unsure.

[randy]

I'm not sure which site/sites were busted, but I've heard rumblings around the internet that the people busted downloaded a .zip file to get an access code to the site. Here's a quote from a random person on reddit about the method the Brazilian police used:

The "secret method" was a .zip file called gerador de codigo.zip, which means code generator, in order to register you had to execute this .html file inside the .zip one, to get an access code. Also, in order to get access you had to post content. And there you have it, that file+uploading CP = JAIL TIME.

Thought I'd pass along this info. I have no idea if the info's valid, but it could help shed light on which sites were busted, if it's true.

[BabyBoyLove]

The "secret method" was a .zip file called gerador de codigo.zip, which means code generator, in order to register you had to execute this .html file inside the .zip one, to get an access code. Also, in order to get access you had to post content. And there you have it, that file+uploading CP = JAIL TIME.

Hmm, sounds like a stupid thing to do... I think TLZ also has an upload requirement.

[randy]

Hmm, sounds like a stupid thing to do... I think TLZ also has an upload requirement.

Yeah, if that's the way it went down, it's pretty amazing people were dumb enough to fall for that. TLZ did have an upload requirement back when they were allowing new members to register, but they never required a person to download anything. TLZ did have some weird streaming thing on its website recently that smelled of an LEA trap, though. I guess the mods explained it away, but it was fishy as hell.

[Chairman]

I'm not sure which site/sites were busted, but I've heard rumblings around the internet that the people busted downloaded a .zip file to get an access code to the site. Here's a quote from a random person on reddit about the method the Brazilian police used:

The "secret method" was a .zip file called gerador de codigo.zip, which means code generator, in order to register you had to execute this .html file inside the .zip one, to get an access code. Also, in order to get access you had to post content. And there you have it, that file+uploading CP = JAIL TIME.

Thought I'd pass along this info. I have no idea if the info's valid, but it could help shed light on which sites were busted, if it's true.

That is a joke/satire, or something like it.  Not accurate, unfortunately, as it'd help clear some things up.

[randy]

That is a joke/satire, or something like it.  Not accurate, unfortunately, as it'd help clear some things up.

Oh ok. Good to know.