2013-08-03 - independent.ie - Founder of the Freedom Hosting / Tormail arrested

[Deepweb]

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/fbi-bids-to-extradite-largest-childporn-dealer-on-planet-29469402.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/1jmrta/founder_of_the_freedom_hosting_arrested_held/

http://newsiiwanaduqpre.onion/?e=5  (only works with tor)
http://newsiiwanaduqpre.onion.to/?e=5

US authorities are seeking the extradition of a 28-year-old Irishman described in the High Court by an FBI special agent as "the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet."

Eric Eoin Marques appeared before Mr Justice Paul Gilligan on foot of an extradition request by the FBI, which alleges he is involved in the distribution of online child pornography.

Not really bitcoin related, but since alot of bitcoin users are using tormail its worth posting i guess.

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[john_nalpa]

   If they got tormail database,eveyone who was using it like gmail for illegal thing will get fucked.

[Deepweb]

Everyone who didnt expect tormail beeing a fbi operation and didnt use pgp will be fucked

[TheKoziTwo]

It's bitcoin related too, it was only last month that he launched "Onion Bank":

16th July 2013 The launch of a new service: Onion Bank.
It has been two years since the open registration of new
Freedom Hosting accounts was closed, and replaced with an invite only
system, which was done to prevent DDoS attacks.

I initially said there would be an option to purchase an
account for a low price of $5 with bitcoins but nothing ever came of
this, mainly because there was no easy way of accepting bitcoins on an
onion site without having to install the bitcoin software.

This gave me the idea that I should create one, a site
where merchants can signup and easily accept bitcoins on their onion
sites.

I created Onion Bank, which has been in (slow) development for almost two years!

Originally it was supposed to include an anonymous exchange between Liberty Reserve and Bitcoins, but since the closing of LR it has now become a bitcoin only site.

One of the problems with using bitcoin on the Tor network is anonymity, bitcoins have a blockchail which can link your purchase or sale of bitcoins at exchanges with the sites that accept them, to use them anonymously a shared wallet/laundry system is required. Onion Bank does all of this and more, the ability to accept and spend bitcoins anonymously.

Using Onion Bank you can accept bitcoins on your site, complete automation is possible.

You can also setup a simple payment/donation link for your site.

Features include...
 Merchant Services SCI/IPN.
 Multiple Identities under one account.
 Generates a new bitcoin address for every transaction.
 Escrow.
 Laundering.

Visit Onion Bank at http://onionbank6fdaccy.onion/
You can also test it out with testnet bitcoins at http://obtestnetmeczlkn.onion/

Now the interesting question is, how did he get caught?

[escrow.ms]

It's bitcoin related too, it was only last month that he launched "Onion Bank":

Now the interesting question is, how did he get caught?

Libertyreserve transactions i guess?

[TheKoziTwo]

I'm inclined to believe that his hidden services was compromised, which could be possible, as explained in an in-depth analysis of the Tor network only a few months back [source].

I don't think he was caught due to using a liberty reserve account, there would be too many users to single out, he never actually launched any service with liberty reserve, and even if he did his liberty reserve account would be pretty much anonymous as well. Seems like a dead end.

A compromised hidden service on the other hand could be fatal, depending on where the servers are located and how he accesses and pay for them.

[elbill]

Some tor nodes are compromised, obviously.

Freedom Hosting host the 50% of deep net.

[Gabi]

Four horsemen of infocalypse?

[vm1990]

god bless America and the fact they always take a massive chunk of innocent people with them, for every 1 illegal site they take down i bet they take atleast 100 innocent sites down to... between this guy and kim dotcom they should sue America for every $ it has

on a more important note im waiting for the next big trend

napster
usenet
P2P
Bittorrent
TOR

also note thy haven't successfully shut any of these down yet

[Mike Christ]

between this guy and kim dotcom they should sue America for every $ it has

America never had any money.  In fact, it owes trillions of it

[vm1990]

if i owed trillions id be bankrupt and probably in jail.... whats so special about America???

its not like they do anything useful.
they start more wars than they finish
they pollute the environment because they cant get more than 10hp per engine without Europes help
and as far as i know they dont make anything useful that the Chinese couldn't make better

hell Canada more useful than the us


the only time the US gets on tv is either a mass shooting or there going to war with yet another country
there like a spoilt child who has to have everything...atleast north Korea keep themselves quiet

[runam0k]

if i owed trillions id be bankrupt and probably in jail.... whats so special about America???

The US is a multi-trillion dollar economy. You are not.

[enquirer]

Now we'll finally learn who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

[zdavidi]

god bless America and the fact they always take a massive chunk of innocent people with them, for every 1 illegal site they take down i bet they take atleast 100 innocent sites down to... between this guy and kim dotcom they should sue America for every $ it has

on a more important note im waiting for the next big trend

napster
usenet
P2P
Bittorrent
TOR

also note thy haven't successfully shut any of these down yet

Sooo, what is Tormails next plan of action?
Does anyone know?
I've got money stuck in BTC-e, and I can't get it out because my account is tied to my Tormail address.

[Raoul Duke]

Sooo, what is Tormails next plan of action? Does anyone know? I've got money stuck in BTC-e, and I can't get it out because my account is tied to my Tormail address.

maybe withdraw all those bitcoins for their users? 

[RodeoX]

It's bitcoin related too, it was only last month that he launched "Onion Bank":

Now the interesting question is, how did he get caught?

Libertyreserve transactions i guess?

I suspect they did something server-side to reveal identities. Maybe?

[vm1990]

Sooo, what is Tormails next plan of action? Does anyone know? I've got money stuck in BTC-e, and I can't get it out because my account is tied to my Tormail address.

you might have lost those bitcoins for good as i dont think tormail have backups...... and if its the FBI involved then nothing is going to happen for possibly 1-2 years. look at mega upload the fight is still going on over a year later

[vm1990]

It's bitcoin related too, it was only last month that he launched "Onion Bank":

Now the interesting question is, how did he get caught?

Libertyreserve transactions i guess?

I suspect they did something server-side to reveal identities. Maybe?

i think anonymous should start worrying about now, next is silk road, after that then its anonymous and if they can hack into FH and defeat everything the designers of tor have designed TOR to do then it wont be long before the FBI target a Anonymous website find a small chink in the sites armor and hunt down anyone visiting that site...

alot of very smart people designed TOR

[TraderTimm]

It is highly recommended that you switch to another method when using Tor, if you haven't already.

"Tails" is a bootable distribution that incorporates all the latest security fixes, and can be loaded on a thumbdrive as well.

Reference:

https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html

I guess we learned another thing about centralization being bad, if all those servers hosting .onion sites were spread far and wide, it would've been more difficult to engineer this kind of thing.

[vm1990]

It is highly recommended that you switch to another method when using Tor, if you haven't already.

"Tails" is a bootable distribution that incorporates all the latest security fixes, and can be loaded on a thumbdrive as well.

Reference:

https://tails.boum.org/download/index.en.html

I guess we learned another thing about centralization being bad, if all those servers hosting .onion sites were spread far and wide, it would've been more difficult to engineer this kind of thing.

to true but people are to lazy to go hunting for hosts they can use there own equipment and security with. everything has to be quick and simple