Ireland-based Freedom Hosting, which hosted several servers on the Tor Project’s hidden network, has been taken down through a vulnerability in the Firefox browser — and the FBI is widely suspected of being the attacker. The FBI reportedly is seeking to extradite Freedom Hosting’s owner, Eric Eoin Marques, to the United States. Marques, whom the FBI alleges was running a huge child porn network on Freedom Hosting using Tor hidden services, has dual Irish and U.S. citizenship.
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FBI Attack on Child Porn Sites May Have Blown Tor Users' Cover
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 5, 2013 02:52 PMIreland-based Freedom Hosting, which hosted several servers on the Tor Project’s hidden network, has been taken down through a vulnerability in the Firefox browser — and the FBI is widely suspected of being the attacker. The FBI reportedly is seeking to extradite Freedom Hosting’s owner, Eric Eoin Marques, to the United States. Marques, whom the FBI alleges was running a huge child porn network on Freedom Hosting using Tor hidden services, has dual Irish and U.S. citizenship.