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This is about the Freedom Hosting hack in 2013. In 2013 Wired wrote > On August 4, all the sites hosted by Freedom Hosting — some with no connection to child p
by vilhelm_s 10y ago
This is about the Freedom Hosting hack in 2013. In 2013 Wired wrote
> On August 4, all the sites hosted by Freedom Hosting — some with no connection to child porn — began serving an error message with hidden code embedded in the page. Security researchers dissected the code and found it exploited a security hole in Firefox to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle [https://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/ https://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/]
However, as far as we know, unlike the more recent Playpen thing, in the Freedom hosting case the FBI did not actually serve child pornography, they just displayed an error message. I don't see anything in this article that suggests otherwise.
- cloudjacker 10y agoWhonix.
- tombrossman 10y agoThat's correct, the FBI hosted error messages and exploits after taking over, and supposedly did not distribute images of abuse. This point is conspicuously absent from the Ars story. Motherboard passed on this story but it appears it was too sensationalist for Ars to resist. See thread here for more info: https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/797070958205038592 https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/797070958205038592