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They didn't just take it over though. They made major improvements which caused the traffic to increase 8x during the time they operated it.

• joshstrange 10y ago
  Do you have a source on this? I haven't read this about the case previously.
  • sathackr 10y ago
    https://motherboard.vice.com/read/lawyer-dark-web-child-porn-site-ran-better-when-it-was-taken-over-by-the-fbi https://motherboard.vice.com/read/lawyer-dark-web-child-porn... "As a result, the number of visitors to Playpen while it was under Government control [increased] from an average of 11,000 weekly visitors to approximately 50,000 per week. During those two weeks, the website’s membership grew by over 30%, the number of unique weekly visitors to the site more than quadrupled, and approximately 200 videos, 9,000 images, and 13,000 links to child pornography were posted on the site,”
    • joshstrange 10y ago
      Thank you for the link, based on the original comment I thought they added new feature/wrote new code (which is not outside the realm of possibility) but this would point to just better hardware and a better internet connection.
      • sathackr 10y ago
        Np. The defense lawyer says otherwise, but he's the defense lawyer. Always good to have the source of info so that context can be applied correctly.