[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.

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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children

Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.

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