Four men sentenced for child pornography, DOJ says they used bitcoin and Tor to cover their tracks

Four men from across the U.S. and Canada were sentenced to decades in prison for running what the Justice Department called a "highly sophisticated" encrypted underground network for trading child pornography.Sergei Spuinsky | AFP | Getty Imagesfor running what the Justice Department called a "highly sophisticated" encrypted underground network for trading child pornography.

The Justice Department said the four convicted men ran a "global child exploitation enterprise" called "The Giftbox Exchange" on the open-source Tor Network, which uses an overlay network for directing internet traffic, obfuscating the details, locations and identities of those using it. The website was paid for through bitcoin transactions, and the men "used other advanced technological means to thwart law enforcement efforts, including file encryption and cryptography."

Patrick D. Falte, 29, of Franklin, Tennessee, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, three counts of advertising child pornography, and three counts of distributing child pornography. Benjamin A. Faulkner, 28, of Ontario, Canada, was sentenced to 35 years in prison; Andrew R. Leslie, 24, of Middleburg, Florida, was sentenced to 30 years in prison; and Brett A.

The FBI has increasingly called on technology companies to help break various encryption methods to help find online criminals, including sex offenders. Christopher Wray highlighted several cases at an FBI cybersecurity conference in July in which he said companies helped the bureau find and rescue abused children

I guess bitcoin didnt work so well, huh

How where they found, arrested and sentenced if they covered they tracks? Dumb.

This is probably not the promotional type news that crypto currencies were hoping for.

bitcoin is a terrible way to 'cover your tracks' its a public ledeger

USD cash is the most used medium of exchange for criminals

Criminals also often use cash rather than credit cards or checks.

Good

IT IS HIGH TIME IN AMERICA TO DESTROY & BURN THEM ALIVE THESE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PUNKS IN AMERICA,ONCE & FOR ALL.THEY ARE NOT HUMANS AT ANY STANDARDS.

Great news. These pedos will have a really rough time in the jail. Mist cons hate perverts. They like to waste them.

Im sure cnbc would also now like to ban online privacy and cryptographic currencies. Jeez

This is one of many reasons crypto will never become mainstream.

All Democrats!

Sick minds ....

But if they used normal fiat currency such as the $,€,£ then you wouldn’t use that narrative. Enough with manipulation mind control. More crimes are committed using traditional money 🙄

Hey wannabe Bitcoin fans, read here. lotterymentality brings crime along.

Thanks for the bullish signal btc

Stupid people, you can not hide a bitcoin transaction or delete it, that why rich and powerfull people dont like it, it's on a public ledger

Trump must have used some bitcoins!

wow nice one cnbc.. emphasizing the use of bitcoin for illegal activity im shocked~~ hahaha

Fake software numbers that Baggies think is actual currency or a 'store of wealth.' 😂😂😂

you picked the worst set of details to piece together a story.

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