Anonymous collects, publishes IP addresses of alleged pedophiles

By Sean Gallagher

Following up on its takedown of a Tor-based child pornography host, a group within the Anonymous “hacktivist” group has published the Internet addresses of 190 alleged pedophiles. To do so, they allegedly collaborated with members of the Mozilla Foundation to create a modified Tor browser plugin which collected forensic data about the users. Members of the group also claim that a member of Tor’s developer team is the operator of the hosting service that serves up several child pornography sites.

The Tor privacy network uses a set of special protocols that can be used to allow anonymous browsing of the Internet and access to hidden “.onion” sites—a “darknet” of webpages, collaborative spaces and other Internet resources hidden from the view of the wider Internet.  The Tor network conceals the location of these services, though attacks within the network can “fingerprint” them to gain information about them and use other methods to get a general idea of their location.

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