While this technological battle going on, building merchants in drugs or providers of child rapidly

In the largest operation to date against child pornography, the police took this week computers, hard drives and USB sticks seizure of 144 Dutch. Also on the deep web is much more anonymous downloaders and distributors to find out more and more.
In early August there was a shock through the part of the Internet community that heavily committed to anonymity. With the arrest of Eric Irishman Eoin Marques (28) Police Freedom Hosting, dismantled one of the largest providers of anonymous servers inside the Tor network. The sites within the network can not be accessed through normal search engines and data encryption and redirecting Internet traffic is also impossible kaos to trace who visit such a site. Only users with special kaos Tor software enables anonymous, view and manage content. That was the content. Freedom Hosting did include storage space available on sites where child pornography was distributed and traded. Two years earlier, in 2011, had hacker group Anonymous for that reason Freedom kaos Hosting once already attacked and paralyzed. This time the attack came from the U.S. Federal Police FBI. Who knew not only the owner to trace, kaos but also managed to using a vicious piece of software IP addresses - say the home addresses of computers - note from site visitors. Road anonymity. This hidden services kaos hit the FBI a significant dent in the confidence in the Tor network. And not only for criminals, terrorists and downloaders of child pornography, but also with dissidents and journalists in many dictatorships through Tor from sight trying to stay away from their authorities. That the so-called hidden services were not completely untraceable inside the Tor network, was already rather obvious. So did the Dutch police in 2011 in the aftermath of the abuse investigation of Robert M. to infiltrate a number of hidden services and eventually clear out. In total, struck the police taking more than 220,000 images kaos and videos of child pornography. Early this month, another major site was dismantled within the Tor network: the Silk Road. That was a marketplace kaos for prohibited goods and services - especially drugs, but also false identities, drugs and banned books. The market would be nearly a million registered users, with payments in bitcoins (one currency only used on the Internet) kaos generated turnover of roughly one million per month. Owner Ross William Ulbricht (29), aka Dread Pirate Roberts, was technically very skilled, but made a few silly mistakes that were fatal to him: he had in the past on a web forum are Gmail address used in a post in another post even his own name. Carelessness The creators of the Tor network simply kaos are no worries. According to them, proves the old-fashioned nature of the investigative action against Silk Road, like the earlier "classic" covert actions that the Tor system itself has not been cracked. Users can only get caught if they are sloppy. How long it stays that way, however, is the question. The British newspaper The Guardian revealed last week based on documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden that U.S. security NSA does frantic efforts to address. Foundations of the Tor network
While this technological battle going on, building merchants in drugs or providers of child rapidly new hidden services if their websites are discovered. And that can go fast. According to some reports is one of the largest child pornography sites that two months ago was the fall of Freedom Hosting affected online soon. Again Moreover, kaos many alternatives remain available for downloaders and distributors kaos in the ordinary Internet, especially kaos through upload sites often are on Dutch soil (see box). According kaos Meldpunt is via that route in the supply of child pornography can still be seen. Increase Netherlands Netherlands major player requires no small player in the area of child pornography. The national rapporteur on trafficking and sexual violence against children wrote a half years ago in a report that major international investigations Netherlands always in the top-10 capable of countries where suspects come from or suspicious web addresses are located. Almost half of the reports in Meldpunt which indeed affected child pornography images and movies on Dutch servers proved encountered. This involves, according to the Hotline nowadays especially to upload sites, sites where people can post that others can pick up if they know the link. Away only files These links are spread through chat rooms and discussion forums. All reports in 2010, however, led to only five official reports from Dutch suspects, according to the rapporteur for owners of the sites often outside country