April 15, 2020

Signal: We’ll be eaten alive by EARN IT Act’s anti-encryption wolves

The Big Bad Wolves haven't blown the house down but did come up with a way to "hold the three little pigs responsible for being delicious," Signal said.

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March 16, 2020

Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

The IICSA report cited "unprecedented levels of depravity" and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

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February 11, 2020

Freedom Hosting owner pleads guilty to distributing child abuse images

Eric Eoin Marques has pleaded guilty to running what was once believed to be the largest child abuse hosting provider on the dark web.

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February 10, 2020

Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’

Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.

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January 09, 2020

Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images

It isn't new, all the tech giants do it, and your privacy's intact - unless you're dealing in illegal imagery with telltale hashing.

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November 26, 2019

Court says suspect can’t be forced to reveal 64-character password

We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.

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October 18, 2019

Bitcoin money trail leads cops to ‘world’s largest’ child abuse site

The Darknet server running the site, "Welcome to Video", and the website's convicted admin were tracked down by a global police force.

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August 14, 2019

4 ‘despicables’ jailed for running hidden worldwide child abuse forums

So much for trusting the Tor network to hide their tracks.

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June 21, 2019

Government is exposing identities of child abuse victims

DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records - IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.

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