Lead an international campaign to close hundreds of lower Internet world sites

Lead an international campaign to close hundreds of lower Internet world sites

Announced that all of the European police agency (Europol) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the success of a massive campaign which has collaborated several international bodies aimed to stop the many Internet sites operating in the shadows practiced various suspicious activities such as the sale of contraband and money laundering.

The campaign has succeeded in stopping 414 locations follow the scope of the "onion." Stealthy private network on the Internet, "Tor" (Tor), where this type of Web addresses used to access the network using the "Tour" exclusively, as the scope of "onion. Uses." To hide the physical location of the servers.

In addition to the closure of hundreds of infringing sites, the campaign included the arrest of 17 people in the founding shareholders of these sites and trade through them, the campaign has closed markets for the sale of drugs from the most famous "Silk Road 2", which had been closed for the first edition last year in advance.

As has been the closure of sites specializing in money laundering, has been booking more than one million units of currency, "Quinn bit" digital and about 250 thousand US dollars in cash, and the confiscation of computers and drugs and the quantities of gold and silver and weapons.

This process has raised many questions about the effectiveness of the network, "Tor" used by millions of users around the world to hide their identity, and "Tour" Foundation said -gar profitability based on the development of Bar.s.- The "Tour" is still safe and ruled out the possibility of a loophole which helped in the identification of those in charge of infringing sites, and suggested the possibility that the police may have reached them through traditional methods.

Source: Portal Arab Technology News