Hunting for child porn, FBI stymied by Tor

Recently released documents detail the federal government’s inability to pursue cybercriminals shrouded by the tricky anonymity tools used by the Silk Road marketplace and other darknet sites – tools which are funded in part by the federal government itself. In this particular case, a citizen reported stumbling upon a cache of child pornography while browsing the anonymous Tor network’s hidden sites, which are viewable with specialized, but readily available, tools and the special .onion domain.