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Re: Large Ontario DC busted for hosting petabytes of child abuse

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Mar 2 13:25:15 2015

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Date: 2 Mar 2015 18:22:06 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In article <1c6ee78f6c1e400289fa7797f3ba647b@pur-vm-exch13n1.ox.com> you write:
>Given the size and that the data is stored in encrypted RAR files, I wonder if they
>just busted a Usenet service provider rather than a P2P / file sharing site.

Unlikely.  There aren't that many large usenet providers, none of them
are based in Canada, and they are hyper-aware that they don't want
child abuse material on their servers.

There aren't that many cloud providers physically located in Canada
either, but I have no idea which one it is.

R's,
John

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