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The Daily Beast reported on newly unsealed documents that show the FBI blindly hacked into computers in Russia, China and Iran during a wide-ranging investigation that led to the bust of a global child pornography operation and the liberation of sexual abuse victims.
As the Daily Beast explains:

Police dismantled child porn websites in the US with 150,000 members and in Germany that had 87,000 members who were hiding out in the dark web. [...]

(ANTIMEDIA) According to statements from both the FBI and Europol, a wide-ranging investigation into a “darknet” pedophile ring has been highly successful — even as their methods are harshly criticized as government overreach.

The FBI originally hacked the site, called Playpen, to identify visitors – but then it continued operating it.
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