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> a tool to plant CP on people's computers. This tool is not described in the article you've linked. Do you have an additional link for those of us who want t

• newguy1234 7y ago
  Here is another discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836336 It is true, there is a tool that was developed to basically plant evidence on a compromised machine. So the idea here being that the hired hackers would compromise the machine and then the government client would tell the hackers to put CP, incriminating evidence or other stuff on the machine before the police raided the house/building. The computers would be seized and then it would be used as evidence to prosecute the target. It is real. Also if you are interested, dark net diaries did an episode on this group called "hacking team". https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/38/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/38/