聯邦調查局以惡意軟體滲透浸戀童癖網站進行調查
聯邦調查局已經滲透到虐童圖片網站並將惡意軟體植入造訪該網站的使用者電腦。
法院檔案資料顯示，為了查處戀童癖者使用匿名瀏覽覽器Tor 瀏覽網站，聯邦調查局在過去的兩年裡嘗試使用“自動下載”。該局使用魚雷方式進行滲透辦案，並逮捕 Pedoboard戀童癖網站的14名用戶，並移送追訴審判。
聯邦調查局自2002年以來一直使用—種可以將資訊發送回去的隱藏惡意軟體，但直到最近才開始大規模使用它。
然而，嫌犯的辯護律師向內布拉斯加州奧馬哈的審判法庭主張，聯邦調查局使用隱藏性的惡意軟體進行辦案，其手段已經超出搜索令的合法許可範圍。
一些被告直到一年之後才知道遭到駭客入侵。
辯護律師約瑟夫Gross Jr. 表示:“通常受到搜查的人幾乎都會立即收到口頭通知。
“我認為此案嚴重違反了第四修正案。”
Tor是一種免費的自由軟體，讓你可以在一系列的電腦中跳躍式的匿名飆網。此瀏覽器可以使用.onion 網址結尾方式來隱藏網站位址。 理論上使用此種方式無法追蹤到其實際位置。
雖然 Tor 瀏覽器可以用於不正當之目的，例如傳播兒童色情圖片，但此瀏覽器對於反抗生活在極權統制下的監控卻也是相當有用的。
上個月，俄羅斯提供相當於£65000獎賞給任何可以設計出可靠的破解使用匿名流覽器發送資料的個人或公司。
來源網址：http://thebright.com/Police/fbi-infiltrates-paedophile-websites-with-malware/
FBI Infiltrates Paedophile Websites With Malware
August 6th, 2014
Source: Sky News (UK)
The FBI has infiltrated websites featuring child abuse images to place malware onto the computers of web users who visit them.
The bureau has been experimenting with “drive-by downloads” for the past two years, in an attempt to unmask paedophiles using anonymous web browser Tor, court documents show.
As a result of Operation Torpedo, 14 alleged users of a site called Pedoboard have been arrested and face trial.
The FBI has been using malware – hidden software which can send information back to its creator – since 2002, but it has only recently started to use it on such a large scale.
However, the suspects’ defence lawyers have urged the trial court in Omaha, Nebraska to throw out the malware evidence on the grounds that the bureau concealed its use beyond the period allowed in the search warrant.
Some defendants did not learn about the hack until a year after the fact.
Defence lawyer Joseph Gross Jr said: “Normally someone who is subject to a search warrant is told virtually immediately.
“What I think you have here is an egregious violation of the fourth amendment.”
Tor is free, open-source software which lets you surf the web anonymously, by bouncing traffic through a series of computers.
It supports special hidden websites with addresses ending in .onion, with theoretically untraceable physical locations.
While it can be used for nefarious purposes – such as distributing child abuse images – it is also useful for activists living in oppressive regimes, for example.
Last month, Russia offered the equivalent of £65,000 to any individual or company which could devise a reliable way of decrypting data sent using the browser.
The bureau has been experimenting with “drive-by downloads” for the past two years, in an attempt to unmask paedophiles using anonymous web browser Tor, court documents show.
As a result of Operation Torpedo, 14 alleged users of a site called Pedoboard have been arrested and face trial.
The FBI has been using malware – hidden software which can send information back to its creator – since 2002, but it has only recently started to use it on such a large scale.
However, the suspects’ defence lawyers have urged the trial court in Omaha, Nebraska to throw out the malware evidence on the grounds that the bureau concealed its use beyond the period allowed in the search warrant.
Some defendants did not learn about the hack until a year after the fact.
Defence lawyer Joseph Gross Jr said: “Normally someone who is subject to a search warrant is told virtually immediately.
“What I think you have here is an egregious violation of the fourth amendment.”
Tor is free, open-source software which lets you surf the web anonymously, by bouncing traffic through a series of computers.
It supports special hidden websites with addresses ending in .onion, with theoretically untraceable physical locations.
While it can be used for nefarious purposes – such as distributing child abuse images – it is also useful for activists living in oppressive regimes, for example.
Last month, Russia offered the equivalent of £65,000 to any individual or company which could devise a reliable way of decrypting data sent using the browser.
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