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• South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest

  10/16/2019, 3:29:35 PM · by ransomnote

  justice.gov ^ | October 16, 2019 | DOJ

  Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 16, 2019 South Korean National and Hundreds of Others Charged Worldwide in the Takedown of the Largest Darknet Child Pornography Website, Which was Funded by Bitcoin Dozens of Minor Victims Who Were Being Actively Abused by the Users of the Site Rescued Jong Woo Son, 23, a South Korean national, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia for his operation of Welcome To Video, the largest child sexual exploitation market by volume of content.  The nine-count indictment was unsealed today along with...

• Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Downing of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division tr

  10/16/2019, 3:24:57 PM · by ransomnote · 2 replies

  justice.gov ^ | October 16, 2019 | DOJ

  Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard Downing of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division Delivers Remarks at the Welcome to Video Press Conference Washington, DC  ~  Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Remarks as Prepared for Delivery

  In August 2017, an investigation began into the illicit transactions of virtual currency on the Darknet. By following the funds on a blockchain, it ultimately uncovered the severity of Welcome to Video, a Tor network-based child pornography site that accepted payment in bitcoin. The site launched in June 2015 and operated until March 2018, when law enforcement shut it down and arrested its operator. The site operated anonymously as a “hidden service” on the Tor network in order to hide its location and that of its users. Such hidden services allow child sex offenders to establish online communities dedicated to the sexual exploitation of children in plain sight of law enforcement and the public. These communities brazenly promote victimizing children and even infants, educate members about how to perpetrate abuse without getting caught, encourage members to continue documenting their abuse, and distribute those videos and pictures to groups of predators that can reach into the hundreds of thousands.

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Anyone know the significance of these pictures? The long string of numbers are the location: Centennial Park, Vacaville, CA