Feds hack past anonymity, bust 72 users of child abuse "horror" site

arstechnica.com

16 points·rodh257··4 comments

Next time someone tries to justify fluffy government program X remind them that every dollar spent on it is taking away money from stopping this. I'm looking at you war on drugs.

At the same time, there are tens of thousands of child prostitutes and sex slaves in the U.S. that the government is ignoring while they go after a handful of these guys. I'd like to think that this is about protecting children, but I'm more inclined to believe that it's really about raising support for their plan to monitor and record all Internet users.

The US government is a big thing, they can do two things at once. In no way does going after these guys proclude them from also going after other instances of child abuse.

Additionally, I have a bit of a problem with the way you turn this rather horrifying story around to make you (and internet users in general) seem the victim. This is not the place.

Unfortunately the article does not describe how the feds "hacked past anonymity":

"The Western Louisiana grand jury indictment, unsealed today, doesn't disclose how the Feds got through Dreamboard's security wall,"

It is kind of funny that the ars technica author used "doesn't" but the lawyers who wrote the indictment had the sense to include "sic" when they quoted "doesn't" from a dreamboard post:)

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