Security News > 2019 > October > Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
2019-10-25 11:14
The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in communications systems, but by analyzing the bitcoin transactions and following the money: Welcome to Video made money by charging fees in bitcoin, and gave each user a unique...
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