Friday, November 4, 2011

Anonymous posted and publish the IP addresses of nearly 200 alleged pedophiles

Hacktivist group Anonymous, which last week made ​​publicly visible results of a new vein of its activities to disrupt a huge child pornography server, now claimed to have recorded the IP addresses of forum users 190 cases of pornographic images featuring children. And he said he will announce the list.

To do this, and as part of Operation Darknet, the group collaborated with members of the Mozilla Foundation to create a false update a plugin for the private network Tor. Thus, during 24 hours collected information about the users involved. The variation in the Tor plugin, led the user to a server controlled by Anonymous keep a register of IP addresses and entering your destination.

In a statement, Anonymous said it will release IP addresses of these alleged pedophiles, which correspond mostly to the United States, but which also find several located in Latin America and Europe.

A new step in the crusade against pedophiles group, which will hopefully move on thwarting more servers, sites and users related to child pornography.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/anonymous-collects-publishes-ip-addresses-of-alleged-pedophiles.ars