Cameron’s encryption ban is ‘infeasible’, says Parliamentary office

“The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has issued a briefing that describes David Cameron’s pledge to ban encryption on the web as neither technically feasible, nor an acceptable UK policy.”

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Tor creators debate research saying 80 percent of dark web traffic attributed to child abuse sites

“Although a recent study found that nearly 80 percent of anonymous network Tor’s traffic was to child abuse sites containing pedophilia material, one of the network’s original designers and various experts have spoken out to say that the staggering stat cannot be taken at face value.”

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Dark net: what is it, and what are the dangers of the government’s secret browsing crackdown?

“The government unveiled new plans to track down paedophiles who use the ‘dark net’ to share images of sexual abuse this morning. But the move might endanger the anonymous technologies themselves – which is also helping keep real and potential victims of crime safe.”

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GCHQ to help tackle ‘dark net’ child abuse images

“Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to tackle child abuse images on the ‘dark net’, David Cameron has said.”

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Tor?

“Wouldn’t it be more efficient and simply better all round if Tor, the NSA and other agencies could work together to weed out the bad guys, and allow the network to continue to protect the innocent?”

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Dark net ‘used by tens of thousands of paedophiles’

“Tens of thousands of paedophiles are using the so-called dark net to trade images of sexual abuse, an investigation by BBC News indicates.”

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Russia’s FSB mulls ban on ‘Tor’ online anonymity network

“The head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has personally ordered preparations for laws that would block the Tor anonymity network from the entire Russian sector of the Internet, a Russian newspaper reported.”

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FBI Attack on Child Porn Sites May Have Blown Tor Users’ Cover

“The Tor project offers a valuable service for many Web users whose very lives may depend on anonymity – but it also gives criminals access to the same privacy protections…”

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Feds bring down Tor-hosted child porn site using suspected vulnerability in Firefox browser

“The US government has successfully taken down one of the Internet’s largest child porn sites, following a program that cracked security on a service that enables anonymous Internet browsing and site hosting.”

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Anti-pedophile group calls for Tor network to be shut down

“Sergei Zhuk, the leader of the Bounty Hunters, a group that aims to combat pedophilia through the detection of child pornography, has asked the Interior Ministry and the communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to restrict access to the anonymity network known as Tor, Izvestia reports on Tuesday.”

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