The Biggest FBI Sting Operation in History

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> Microsoft’s target market was the country’s drug-trafficking and murder-for-hire gangs, but winning them over would be a challenge.

I love that they use his nom de guerre for the whole article, creating many choice quotes about Microsoft's criminality.

> The FBI was secretly managing the whole company, under the code name Operation Trojan Shield.

tldr The FBI used affiliate marketing to avoid claims of entrapment and embed itself in the European underworld after shutting down Phantom Secure. I actually have one of their Blackberries that I hope will be worth a lot of money one day

AFAIK the FBI has always been the primary source of online kiddie porn. Every once in a while, they make a big deal of arresting some tiny subset of their users, and brag about how they've done good.

What would your source for that knowledge be?

In the 90s … the federal government actually hosted child porn just to see who would download it

Online observation, and trying to keep some early porn BBS systems free of illegal content. The bastards push.

They were heavy in IRC when I was too. 13 year old girls were not really that eager to share their skin pics with everyone.

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