How the police took down a ring of paedos

[Quartz]

Not a nice subject but very much worth reading.

The takeover: how police ended up running a paedophile site

It was one of the world’s largest and most secure paedophile networks – an online space where tens of thousands traded horror.

The website dealt in abuse; video and images of children, swapped and boasted about on a dark-web forum, accessible only through an encrypted browser.

Membership was tightly managed. Quiet accounts raised suspicion and could be suddenly terminated. Those who stayed had to upload new material frequently. More than 45,000 people complied.

But what those thousands never realised, even as heavy users began to disappear, was that the site was being run by police.

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Your right, not a very nice topic, but kudos to the cops who did a nasty job that probably stressed them more than we can imagine.

I am not in favor of the death penalty, per se, I find it un-useful in preventing crime most time, but for these folks…I’m willing to go Medieval and have them Broken on the Wheel.

[TriPolar]

Give those cops medals. Look at their logo.

Its symbol is a scorpion, the natural predator of the rock spider, the Australian prison parlance for a child sex offender.

We need that kind of vigilance worldwide. Take down that kind of scum wherever they are.

[Gedd]

I think I would feel very proud to work in that kind of anti-criminal field; I don’t know if I could mentally handle it though.

Props to them.

[MrDibble]

Hijack - here in South Africa , “rock-spider” is a slang term for a White Afrikaner/Boer by English South Africans. Which must confuse the heck out of visiting Australians.

[Projammer]

I just wonder how many law enforcement organizations tried/succeeded in infiltrating it without being aware that it was a sting operation.

But seriously, kudos again.