Anonymous posts 190 IP addresses from child pornographers

This map shows the locations of those "caught" by Anonymous.

Anonymous, famous for their online protests and "hacktivism" has just released 190 IP addresses of child pornographers. The operation, called "Operation Paw Printing", was based around a Tor update released last week, and they knew that Tor users would want to immediately update their software. The group edited the code to allow them to track a user's online activity for 24 hours and posted the modified update on "Hard Candy", an underground child pornography forum on a website called The Hidden Wiki.

The administrator of "Hard Candy" added this note to the forum: "If you were stupid enough to install the recently linked Tor button 'update'... then your anonymity has no doubt been compromised. As a result you should consider running anti-virus/malware programs and/or fully wiping your hard drives."

Anonymous acknowledged their dedication to free speech, but noted: "Child Pornography is NOT FREE SPEECH.  We proved beyond doubt, that 70% of users to The Hidden Wiki access the HARD CANDY section, "a secret directory" used by the pedophiles to access sites like Lolita City and The Hurt Site, a site dedicated to trade of child rape."

The IP addresses and a more detailed explanation of Anonymous's operation can be found here.

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