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Facebook paid for a 0-day to help FBI unmask child predator

A third-party cybersecurity firm were paid to drill a hole in a Tor-reliant operating system to uncover a man who spent years sextorting young girls.

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.

Eric Eoin Marques has pleaded guilty to running what was once believed to be the largest child abuse hosting provider on the dark web.

Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.

We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.

The Darknet server running the site, “Welcome to Video”, and the website’s convicted admin were tracked down by a global police force.

So much for trusting the Tor network to hide their tracks.

DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages.

It’s been a predator’s playground, where children’s photos have been public by default and trolling adults could message them.

After big brands pulled ads, YouTube banned millions of comments, closed hundreds of accounts, and sped up development of a predator filter.