FBI Dark Web hacks were a part of a global child porn bust
The international scope isn’t completely surprising, since the feds briefly took over an existing service (Playpen) to infiltrate the PCs of pedophiles who signed up. There were bound to be people outside of the US who got caught. However, it reveals just how broad the FBI’s search warrant really was. Effectively, it had permission to hack an unlimited number of targets worldwide in the name of stamping out sexual exploitation.
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