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Doesn’t the three-letters do that like… all the time? That’s basically the definition of honeypotting As I recall, the FBI did exactly that fairly recently, wh
by setr 5y ago
Doesn’t the three-letters do that like… all the time? That’s basically the definition of honeypotting
As I recall, the FBI did exactly that fairly recently, when they pwned some credit card trading site and ran it themselves for years.
- bigiain 5y agoThey ran a child porn dark web site for two weeks: "Playpen was a notorious darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015.[1][2] The website operated through a hidden service through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was captured by the FBI. After his capture, the FBI continued to run the website for another 13 days as part of Operation Pacifier." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playpen_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playpen_(website)
- stephen_g 5y agoAustralian police did the same thing with another captured site, for more than six months if I recall correctly. They actually even posted material to it themselves in status updates impersonating the admins, because the admins who set up the site had established that protocol because they believed police would never do that…
- esyir 5y agoSeems reasonable to me. Limited timespan to gather information with potentially large payoff. I don't agree with "entrapment" arguments and "faciliting spread" here. The site was already up, and the users were going to go there regardless. Running it for a week or two more is at worst marginal harm, considering it was already there for a good 6 months.
- efnx 5y agoI don't think entrapment is the problem here - it's that the government is distributing child porn. It's still wrong even if the government is doing it. The ends don't justify the means.