In February and March that passed over 12 days, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran the world's largest child pornography site, Playpen. According to recently released documents, Playpen was not the only child pornography site on the FBI servers.
Αν δεν θυμάστε πως έγινε: το FBI κατέλαβε την ιστοσελίδα, και άρχισε να την τρέχει σε κυβερνητικούς servers για 13 μέρες προσπαθώντας να παγιδεύσει παιδόφιλους με κακόβουλο λογισμικό. Με το κακόβουλο λογισμικό, γνωστό στις αρχές επιβολής του νόμου και σαν “network investigative technique” (NIT), προσπάθησαν να διεισδύσουν στα TOR των χρηστών που είχαν είχαν πρόσβαση στο site μέσω του Dark Web. 
According to a sworn statement by the FBI:
In the normal course of the operation of a website, the user sends "requests δεδομένων” στην ιστοσελίδα, για να αποκτήσει πρόσβαση σε αυτό το site. Οι websites 1-23 were operated in government facilities, and thus data related to a user's actions on websites 1-23 are collected. Data collection is not a function of NIT. Such data (requests) may be combined with the data collected by NIT in order to identify a specific user and their actions on websites 1-23.
Simply put, "websites 1-23" operated for the government indefinitely space, in an attempt to arrest pedophiles.
Why do we mention "halves" in the title? Sarah Jamie Lewis, a security researcher, told Ars Technica:
"It makes a lot of sense for the FBI to run almost half of all known child pornography sites hosted on Tor."
Lewis runs OnionScan, an analysis tool that uses bots to map the Dark Web for vulnerabilities. He began a survey in April this year, and in August, he had mapped 29 child pornography websites hidden on Tor's servers.
Of course, for the above actions, the FBI is not so legal, as with the use of a single warrant it has managed to break thousands of computers. Only in the Playpen survey were 1.300 unique Internet addresses (IP).
Of these, fewer than 100 cases found their way to the court where the judges in Iowa, Massachusetts and Oklahoma judged that the FBI's investigation was illegal.
Of course the real crime is elsewhere:
There is no doubt that any child abuse (let alone sexual) is one of the worst crimes, but the way the FBI handled the case is equally alarming. Imagine that they allowed these sites to work with the victims, indicating the pretext of the investigation.
In a world we want to be bound by law, the FBI itself is committing the same crime as the criminals behind the rails. We should all ask ourselves whether the facilitation of child sexual abuse deserves to capture 100 of some alleged pedophiles.
