I should clarify, the IWF is a quasi-government body, who are very very close to the CEOP, which is a branch of the NCA. The three agencies are pretty much the same people with a different uniform for a different day. Why they would deny it I don't know, but the IWF is the one with the biggest child porn hash library which it is already known about they and the NCA share with other government departments.
On 26/10/2015 02:00, Virgil Griffith wrote: > It's unclear to me why IWF would deny this. > > I know nothing about National Crime Agency. But it makes sense they'd > want to crawl. For example, INTERPOL does crawl .onion, and they are > very open about it. It wouldn't surprise me if they move to the MEMEX tools. > > -V > On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 at 23:14 Thomas White <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Although they deny it, I have heard first hand from them (the IWF and > National Crime Agency (The UK's FBI)) that they do indeed crawl hidden > services. > > On 25/10/2015 03:13, Virgil Griffith wrote: > > I've been trying to get a better count of the popularity of child > abuse > > content. We know (or at the very least, strongly suspect), a lot > of the > > traffic comes from LEOs. Do we know of any organizations that are > doing > > this crawling? Both the IWF.org.uk <http://IWF.org.uk> > <http://IWF.org.uk> as well as > > NCMEC.org deny any crawling on their part. > > > > I'd like to talk to an organization that does some of this > crawling and > > their IPranges so we can subtract them out from the statistics. > > > > -V > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tor2web-talk mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tor2web-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tor2web-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk > _______________________________________________ Tor2web-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/tor2web-talk
