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Federal litigation over child-pornography investigations that relied on Tor or other anonymizing networks
The seized the Tor hidden service in February 2015 and, rather than immediately shutting it down, ran the site from an FBI server while deploying a hacking tool the agency called a “Network Investigat...
Federal litigation over child‑pornography investigations that relied on Tor or other anonymizing networks has repeatedly centered on whether law enforcement can pierce anonymity, how evidence gathered...
Prosecutors in the United States have repeatedly used evidence gathered from Tor-related operations—most prominently the FBI’s Network Investigative Technique (NIT) deployed against the Playpen child‑...
A number of high‑profile federal cases and dozens of related prosecutions explicitly tie child‑pornography investigations to use of the Tor anonymity network, most famously the FBI’s takeover of the T...