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Turns out the FBI isn’t the only agency to take over a child pornography website and bust some of its participants. Australian authorities have apparently employed similar tactics against Americans—revealing at least 30 targets.
According to Vice Motherboard, which first reported the story on Monday, Queensland Police Service’s Task Force Argos identified the owner of a Tor-hidden child porn site called “The Love Zone.” Queensland Police posed as The Love Zone for several months in 2014. (The Love Zone’s Australian owner, Shannon McCoole, is currently serving a 35-year sentence.)
Once they had control, Aussie cops seem to have sent out a child porn video file as bait to users of the site.
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Source: Ars Technica – Aussie cops ran child porn site for months, revealed 30 US IPs