German police smash child sexual abuse site

…hundreds of thousands of users

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Phrasing on that headline. 😂

Yeah, but did they take down the website only, or did they also take down the content they mostly link to?

In the past, there have been investigations by multiple news outlets where they found that German police would routinely seize forums and domains where links to CP were posted but would not request the hosting providers of the linked content to delete the material.

They smashed it? What, did they hit the server with a sledgehammer? Did a cop turn into The Hulk? What?

German police say they have shut down a "dizzyingly large" child sexual abuse image website

Bah.

How the fuck someone can hoard 14 fucking terabytes of sick photos???

I hope everyone involved in the production of such material spends the rest of their lives in a Guantanamo style box

data storage detection dogs

didnt know dogs were used for this too!

Hundreds of thousands of users??

I bet they did

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Ok, but WHICH site did they take down? Any names or links?

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Any name of the website, for reference, or any links to further statements? Just because our police claim they achieved something does not mean I believe them at all. And even if they actually took down something, a forum style site very likely means all content was hosted externally. Essentially, the site could be rebuilt in a few days in that case.

Just stating "we took down some bad CP site" without ANY further explanation is worthless, because websites and especially darknet services are much more complicated than there being a single server, you plug that off and you saved the day. If "the internet never forgets", the darknet even gains from such events. Each piece of content will be locally stored by at least a dozen of the hundreds of thousand of members. And after that, it will be uploaded to new services (if it wasn't just spread out to dozens of 3rd parties anyway), and more people will download it. So the situation could be worse now. Doesn't matter for the stats and publicity of course. But being able to comprehend their claims and actions would at least give one either the satisfaction that cops achieved something and those fuckers were taken down, or another reason for facepalm.

The most important thing with such an event here is transparency. And in history, recently and nearly a century ago, it's not like blindly believing cops was a good option.