![]() ![]() At each node, another layers of the package is decrypted, until the innermost message reaches the final recipient. Message arrives When the recipient gets the message, all layers of the package has been unwrapped. It’s next to impossible to know, based on traffic analysis, who’s sent the message – or who visits a Tor service. It’s understandable that Jon and Paul look shocked. Finding them was thought to be impossible. The website they operate is on the so-called “dark web”. Encryption was supposed to keep the whereabouts of the server and the people behind it secret. VG has uncovered not only where but also from which computer the forum was run. ![]() They work for the Australian police’s spearhead into the dark web: Task Force Argos. Investigator Paul Griffiths has been in charge of numerous operations. VG can now reveal that Task Force Argos infiltrated the realm of child abusers inside the dark web for almost a year – and that the police unit itself shared photos of children being sexually abused. Jon Rouse, detective inspector, and investigator Paul Griffiths (on the left). How far should the police go in the service of good? How many wrongs should investigators be permitted to commit in pursuit of justice? The undercover operation in Australia, Operation Artemis, was part of a wide-ranging international police investigation. VG has known about the operation since January and followed it closely, partly by monitoring traffic on the dark web and partly by obtaining information from police, judicial authorities and other sources around the world. When VG's computer expert, Einar Otto Stangvik, began investigating the website and its Nordic members in the autumn of 2016, we had no idea he would uncover a secret police operation. Only now can we tell the story of how Task Force Argos, the U.S. But in doing so was it necessary for the police to run a child exploitation forum for nearly a year? Department of Homeland Security and the police in Canada and Europe worked to unmask the leaders of the world’s largest online community of child sexual abusers.įrom the start, Operation Artemis had a clear objective: identifying victims and their abusers. In the United States, a mother weeps when she hears that VG has found that pictures of her daughter being sexually abused were shared by members, while the police operated the site. – My daughter should not be used as a bait. ![]()
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