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Thanks for the insight. I'm absolutely disgusted about the fact that child prostitution is easily accessible. Are you aware of ways a software developer could h

by Cyph0n 10y ago

Thanks for the insight. I'm absolutely disgusted about the fact that child prostitution is easily accessible. Are you aware of ways a software developer could help in the war against CP, especially if indirectly? (I don't have the heart for the "real" stuff)

dogma1138 10y ago
Other than developing exploits for the FBI not really, there is a reason why this is centralized now P2P (Kazaa, eDonkey etc.) was hard enough to track especially once cheap VPN's became popular (since even a non no-log VPN would usually prevent the police from doing anything as it would be detected as a foreign IP which is out of their jurisdiction, at best they could forward that to interpol which usually didn't do anything). Financially you can always donate to international NGOs and local organizations that battle and assist the victims of CP but overall I don't think they have much actual impact other than the feel good factor, I doubt they have the reach for it, maybe Mexico, but Thailand et. al highly unlikely. These days it seems that anti-CP operations are pretty much centralized on TOR and a few other networks, P2P and Usenet used to be the spot for that but over the past 10 years everything moved to either private internet sites that domain hop frequently or TOR and similar networks. Encryption, VPN's and other privacy tools make the job of tracking people down en mass without any exploits nearly impossible, even 10 years ago besides the usual rehashed crap that one could find with a few search terms on P2P file sharing apps everything was already encrypted. CP users were pretty much encrypting everything way before anyone else, on P2P/Usenet they were running PGP rings and they would exchange keys via side channels and share their content encrypted so only people that were in the ring could decrypt it (this was in effect running your own private site over P2P or a specific newsgroup). Back then the best LEOs could do is try to get into the PGP rings and lure some of their members to meet in person or reveal their identity (no one even thought of using malware to track them down, that tradecraft wasn't there, nor would it have been admissible most likely) via other means. Today this type of well effectively state level intelligence agency operations is pretty much the only way of combating CP at any reasonable scale, and even this scale is likely quite underwhelming when compared to the amount of content produced and traded each year. But AFIAK probably the only LEO worldwide that does this is the FBI, local police departments don't have the resources, Interpol and Europol are mostly a joke, and most countries have considerable constraints on active network exploitation by law enforcement.
- Cyph0n 10y ago
  Once again, thanks a bunch for the detailed reply. Do you blog or use Twitter or something? If so, I'd really like to follow you :)
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    I don't tweet or blog sorry.

by Cyph0n 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

Other than developing exploits for the FBI not really, there is a reason why this is centralized now P2P (Kazaa, eDonkey etc.) was hard enough to track especially once cheap VPN's became popular (since even a non no-log VPN would usually prevent the police from doing anything as it would be detected as a foreign IP which is out of their jurisdiction, at best they could forward that to interpol which usually didn't do anything). Financially you can always donate to international NGOs and local organizations that battle and assist the victims of CP but overall I don't think they have much actual impact other than the feel good factor, I doubt they have the reach for it, maybe Mexico, but Thailand et. al highly unlikely. These days it seems that anti-CP operations are pretty much centralized on TOR and a few other networks, P2P and Usenet used to be the spot for that but over the past 10 years everything moved to either private internet sites that domain hop frequently or TOR and similar networks. Encryption, VPN's and other privacy tools make the job of tracking people down en mass without any exploits nearly impossible, even 10 years ago besides the usual rehashed crap that one could find with a few search terms on P2P file sharing apps everything was already encrypted. CP users were pretty much encrypting everything way before anyone else, on P2P/Usenet they were running PGP rings and they would exchange keys via side channels and share their content encrypted so only people that were in the ring could decrypt it (this was in effect running your own private site over P2P or a specific newsgroup). Back then the best LEOs could do is try to get into the PGP rings and lure some of their members to meet in person or reveal their identity (no one even thought of using malware to track them down, that tradecraft wasn't there, nor would it have been admissible most likely) via other means. Today this type of well effectively state level intelligence agency operations is pretty much the only way of combating CP at any reasonable scale, and even this scale is likely quite underwhelming when compared to the amount of content produced and traded each year. But AFIAK probably the only LEO worldwide that does this is the FBI, local police departments don't have the resources, Interpol and Europol are mostly a joke, and most countries have considerable constraints on active network exploitation by law enforcement.

Cyph0n 10y ago
Once again, thanks a bunch for the detailed reply. Do you blog or use Twitter or something? If so, I'd really like to follow you :)
- dogma1138 10y ago
  I don't tweet or blog sorry.