Alleged Child Porn Lord Faces US Extradition
Summary: Ireland's Supreme Court cleared the way for the extradition of Eric Eoin Marques, the 33-year-old alleged operator of Freedom Hosting, who was arrested in Ireland in 2013 on a U.S. warrant and has been in custody since. The FBI says it used a previously unknown Firefox 17 vulnerability on Aug. 4, 2013 to identify the true Internet addresses of Tor Browser users visiting child porn sites hosted on Freedom Hosting, which investigators allege earned Marques more than $1.5 million.
What you should know: The case rests on a law-enforcement agency weaponizing a browser zero-day against an anonymity network's users, and the source notes the same technique could serve governments pursuing political dissidents - a stake that reaches well past this defendant.
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