Freedom hosting

Freedom Hosting was a "hidden service" designed and operated Web hosting - service , several prominent sites of its servers on Deep Web were made available. Eric Eoin Marques was the operator of the service .

Freedom Hosting has made web space available to everyone for any purpose , without any content or other exclusion criteria.

business

In the course of the operator's arrest, it became known that he should have moved large amounts of money to Eastern Europe . From this it is concluded that the server locations are or were there.

DDoS by Anonymous

In 2011, the loose hacktivist collective Anonymous temporarily took various child pornography websites offline with a distributed denial of service attack on Freedom Hosting as part of "Operation Darknet". According to their own statements, Lolita was one of the more than 40 exchange platforms City with more than 100 gigabytes of image and video material.

FBI honeypot

After Marques' arrest, all Freedom hosting sites were temporarily offline , but then reported "Down for Maintenance" (for example: maintenance work is being carried out ). However, this maintenance page delivered malware to the visitor. The malicious code was written in JavaScript and hidden in an iframe . He sent the IP and MAC address of the caller to a server in Virginia . Together with the temporal proximity to the arrest initiated by the FBI and the request for Eric Marques' extradition to the United States , the press deduces that the zero-day exploit comes from the CIA based in Langley (Virginia) and would undermine the presumption of innocence due to the concern of all Tor users . The target server is operated by the military service provider SAIC .

Web links

Hidden Services, Current Events, and Freedom Hosting - Statement of the Tor project

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Freedom Hostings's alleged founder held in Ireland, facing extradition to US. , Ars Technica . Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network , Ars Technica . Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ Freedom Hosting and 'torsploit': Troubles on the Onion router , techrepublic.com. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
^ Feds Accused Of Distributing Malware That De-Anonymizes Tor Users , techdirt.com. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

[ars3-1] Freedom Hostings's alleged founder held in Ireland, facing extradition to US. , Ars Technica . Retrieved August 28, 2013.

[ars-2] Anonymous takes down darknet child porn site on Tor network , Ars Technica . Retrieved August 28, 2013.

[techr-3] Freedom Hosting and 'torsploit': Troubles on the Onion router , techrepublic.com. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

[4] Feds Accused Of Distributing Malware That De-Anonymizes Tor Users , techdirt.com. Retrieved August 28, 2013.