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"Anonymous" rende pubblici i network pedofili internazionali.


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Anonymous hackers turn fire on global paedophile menace

After targeting jihadist websites, the Anonymous hacktivist collective targets clean-up of dark web, as experts warn child porn explosion is overwhelming government

 

6:00AM GMT 23 Jan 2015

They are best known for hacking government and corporate websites, but in the wake of the Westminster child abuse scandal and allegations of establishment cover-ups, the Anonymous internet collective has a new target: exposing international paedophile networks.
Named “Operation Death Eaters” after the evil acolytes of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, the group has issued a call for a global effort on social media to build a grassroots database of paedophile cases that it says will shine light into the darkest corner of the worldwide web.
The new Anonymous campaign comes after the group announced it would target jihdadist websites in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings, and is being spreading on Facebook, Twitter and other social media using the tag ‘OpDeathEaters’
Heather Marsh, an online activist who is helping to co-ordinate the operation and describes herself as an “old friend” of Anonymous, said that ‘OpDeathEaters’ was aimed at exposing the extent of the explosion of child abuse material on the internet.
Tens of millions of images of child abuse are now believed to be circulating online, many showing the abuse of infants and toddlers so horrific that mainstream media outlets and the public at large are turning a blind eye to the problem, experts warned this week.

 

Many of the cases, like that of Michael Centanni, a prominent Republican fund-raiser in Washington who pleaded guilty this month to child sex offences after being found with 267 child abuse videos, are glossed over by local media as too disturbing to cover in detail.
Data from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in Washington, which reflects only a fraction of the total, has identified almost 8,000 child victims since 2002 as well as some 3.2m child pornography images, with approximately 40,000 new images being added every week.
The Anonymous project was also prompted in part by allegations of cover-up of the alleged 1980s Westminster paedophile ring and renewed questions over the influence network of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and friend of Prince Andrew who was convicted of sex offences.
 “The premise behind OpDeathEaters is to expose high level complicity, obstruction of justice and cover-up in the paedo-sadist industry in order to show the need for independent inquiries,” said Miss Marsh.
OpDeathEaters, like a previous Anonymous campaign to highlight the cover-up of ritual murders in the African state of Gabon, is intended to break what it says is a conspiracy of silence among sympathetic politicians, police and mainstream media to downplay the full extent of the online child sex industry.
“The database is not meant to find criminals but to show influence networks and how already known cases are distributed across those networks,” Miss Marsh added. “No one can visualize a beach by being presented with periodic, isolated grains of sand.”

The scale of the problem was acknowledged by David Cameron last year when he announced his “We Protect” initiative, including new offences for soliciting pictures from children and a new unit at GCHQ to police the encrypted file-sharing networks abusers use to swap videos and pictures of child abuse.
At an international conference in December Mr Cameron warned of “sickening images” being transferred on the so-called dark web, and warned paedophiles there would be “nowhere to hide” as the intelligence agencies shone a light “on the web's darkest corners”
However Miss Marsh whose book ‘Binding Chaos’ looks at the power of global, grassroots networks to supplant traditional government, said the grassroots not government must own the process.
“The high level cover-ups by the UK government would make one question the good faith of any of their initiatives to shut down the industry,” she said.
The Anonymous database, which will be hosted on the GitHub online repository, promises to collate cases from all around the world, cross-referencing connections within sub-groups including the police, armed forces, schoolteachers, politicians, media, academics and religious organisations.
The database’s ultimate purpose has yet to be fully determined, but in the first instance the group says it wants to shut down the child-sex industry by “dismantling the power structure which held it there” and by “educating to create a cultural change”.
By its secretive nature, precise data on the number of child abuse images circulating online is impossible to produce, however police officers, prosecutors and child-sex experts said that the avalanche of new material was easily overwhelming government.
Detective Cecil Arnold, a member of the Texas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, said that US law enforcement had estimated there were some seven million identified images of child abuse, only about 40 per cent of which were being specifically tracked.
Even more disturbingly according to Det. Arnold some 60 per cent of new images recently reviewed by ICAC were of pre-pubescent children under 10, infants and toddlers – challenging the often widespread assumption that child pornography involved mainly pubescent or teenage boys and girls.
Paedophiles share the images on ‘peer-to-peer’ file sharing networks that enable two people to swap video files and pictures over an encrypted network that enables sophisticated users to avoid detection.
Many of those arrested, says Det Arnold, are “low hanging fruit” who started out consuming mainstream pornography but found themselves sinking further and further into hard core, and the child pornography.
“They start looking at regular pornography, and then that progresses until they're into bondage, then they're into torture and before they know it they've desensitised the portion of their brain that filters this stuff as being wrong,” he said.
Lawyers, police officers and experts who deal with child abuse cases on a regular basis said that sheer depravity of the material, often involving the rape and sodomy of very young children, mean that mainstream media were unable or unwilling to describe the true nature of the problem.
James Marsh, an internationally recognised lawyer for victims of child pornography who last year took a compensation came for victims to the US Supreme Court, said that government, media and society was simply failing to grasp the problem because no-one wanted to confront the reality.
“It is an unstoppable cesspool of images and exploitation out there and it’s just something that, from a public policy standpoint, a social policy standpoint and a public health standpoint, we haven't even begun to deal with this in a reasonable way,” he said.
The rise of the smartphone, the ubiquity of ‘regular’ pornography and the ability of the internet to network child-abusers together into self-supporting groups has massively accelerated the child porn problem in recent years, according to experts.
Dr Sharon Cooper, one of the world’s leading experts in the impacts of child sex abuse, who has been reviewing child abuse images since 1998 for police investigations, said contemporary images were now noticeably more sadistic than a decade ago.

“In the late 1990s a lot of images were poses, children just solo or perhaps masturbating, but not nearly as horrendous as what we see today, which is child-torture. Sometimes it’s so bad you cannot be sure they will survive it,” she said.
“Many of these child abuse images are also mimicking adult porn which has become much more violent, often contains more than one offender and includes many more homemade images. That is occurring in child sexual abuse images too.”
The high prevalence of white, often middle class establishment professional men among offenders has also contributed to the failure to fully address the problem and the over-arching networks that sustain the child pornography industry, according to Mr Marsh.
Data from the US government’s Sentencing Commission survey confirms that the overwhelming majority – more than 85 per cent - of those convicted of child pornography offenses were white males. Their average age was 43.
“Our biggest challenge is often convincing a court and the world that the white middle class businessmen, with no prior record, was indeed a paedophile - a child rapist and a child molester. That's something that we don't want to accept,” he said.
Studies have also established a clear link between those who possess child pornography and those who engage in real-world sexual abuse, with the a review of 21 studies by Canadian scientists finding that half of convicted child-porn offenders admitted having previously committed a “contact sexual offence”.
Activists pointed to the muted media coverage given to a recent case in Washington DC in which Centanni, a senior Republican fundraiser, was charged with child sex offences after investigators traced transmissions of child pornography to his computers in his basement.
The case was not covered by The Washington Post or the New York Times, and was only picked up by a local NBC affiliate state and The Washington Examiner, a small conservative paper in the city.
According to the court filings, Centanni was found in possession of 3,000 images, many apparently filmed in his own bedroom, including one showing a man raping a five year old girl who cries “no” and “mommy” while the man says “good baby” and “stop crying,” according to one filing.
Professor David Corwin, a child psychiatrist at the University of Utah and a regular expert witness who has had to watch graphic videos of child abuse, says the collective desire to turn away among the media and public is understandable, but is keeping society from confronting the truly corrosive nature of child abuse.
“This material is just so far beyond our common ability to even conceive, it’s psychological heroin, you cannot get it out of your head,” he said, “It’s like Medusa: you can’t look at it without it turning you to stone, so how does society deal with the problem?”



Link originale: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11363303/Anonymous-hackers-turn-fire-on-global-paedophile-menace.html