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Data.

The charity warns organised criminals are taking advantage of “systemic failures” in online security infrastructure.

Commercial websites host a wide range of child sexual abuse imagery which is available for users to buy. The imagery for sale can involve victims of all ages, and can include some of the most severe and extreme forms of sexual abuse.

Some of these sites have been deliberately disguised to appear as non-criminal sites or to look inactive in an attempt to operate on the open web while avoiding detection. Many of these sites accept payment via cryptocurrencies, card payments or money transfer services.

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[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 151 points 1 week ago

We can mobilize tens of thousands of ICE officers to get day laborers, but can't afford a few hundred detectives to hunt down these eminently findable clearnet site operators.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 week ago

In "fairness", all it takes to be an ice agent is two legs, a trigger finger and the ability to goose step with one hand raised. It takes a small amount of actual brain power to do real investigations

[-] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

In all fairness, the ICE goons are probably hunting down a lot of these sites in their free time, if you catch my drift.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I don't appreciate your tone.

Yes, many Ice Agents do important research like this on their free time. They even collect it and store it on their personal devices for future study. This is how they get into criminal's heads.

They have to get down in the trenches and if uncovering a network of pedophiles requires becoming one themselves, then that is what they do. For their country, of course. /S

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, who would have thunk that people would suffer and pedophiles would be enjoying safe havens if we put the Epstein class in charge of the country?

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