By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The complexities of the Internet are creating major challenges for the FBI.
Security Daily News reports that the FBI halted a child porn investigation, “citing an inability to infiltrate the Web’s hidden underworld — the ‘dark net’.”
Information about the probe was obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request.
The FOIA request came from Jason Smathers of MuckRock after he learned that a man called the “Detroit FBI office to report that he’d found a dark net site called ‘TSChan’ which appeared to be hosting child pornography.”
Security Daily News reports that a number of sites are hosted on a “dark net” which deliberately hides sites, making them accessible only through IP-anonymizing portals such as The Onion Router.
Security News reported: “According to the FOI request, the FBI acknowledged the impossibility of tracing TSChan, and halted its investigation.”
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