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F147H34D on Sept 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Building a Dark Web Crawler in Go

Right, but possession of those items do not constitute a violation of law. Whereas, the possession of child exploitation material does. No matter the reasoning.

I would tread lightly crawling the dark web. There are cases where the FBI has admitted to running services on TOR, to collect IP addresses:

https://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/

apta on Sept 23, 2019 [–]

> Right, but possession of those items do not constitute a violation of law. Whereas, the possession of child exploitation material does. No matter the reasoning.

What about when the FBI/CIA does it? Genuine question.

monoshift on Sept 23, 2019 | | [–]

No one watches the watchmen.

JohnFen on Sept 23, 2019 | | [–]

There is a legal exception for legitimate law enforcement activities.

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