On 03/09/2017 10:14 PM, krishna e bera wrote: > "The Department of Justice filed a motion in Washington State federal > court on Friday to dismiss its indictment against a child porn site. It > wasn’t for lack of evidence; it was because the FBI didn’t want to > disclose details of a hacking tool to the defense as part of discovery. > Evidence in United States v. Jay Michaud hinged at least in part on > information federal investigators had gathered by exploiting a > vulnerability in the Tor anonymity network. > ..." > > https://www.wired.com/2017/03/feds-rather-drop-child-porn-case-give-exploit/
The Wired article misleadingly says "indictment against a child porn site". Jay Michaud was allegedly just a user, not a site admin etc.[0] David Browning and Steven Chase were allegedly the admins.[1] 0) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/feds-may-let-playpen-child-porn-suspect-go-to-keep-concealing-their-source-code/ 1) http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38907071 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk