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'Popular' isn't a word that I'd use to describe such forums/sites, but yes they did exist back when MM went missing. CB's buddy MT even mentioned how CB was always on the Darkweb
The Dark Web (sometimes referred to as the “Darknet”) was officially launched 20 years ago, on March 20, 2000 with the release of “Freenet“: a peer-to-peer, decentralised network, designed to make it less vulnerable to attack and snooping by authorities and states.
For example from the Alexander B from Meißen case;
The pedophile casual worker has been in various child *advertiser censored* groups on the Internet since 2005. In 2010 he founded the site "Love Zone" with an accomplice.
The INTERNET do exist since 1983 but how many of you guys did use it back then ? One would use Telnet, Gopher and FTP but there was no WWW as we know it now. Only when windows 95/98 became popular general people started to use the INTERNET. Same goes for "DarkWeb".
How many of you guys would have the knowledge/expertise to configure a VPN tunnel by hand and set your browser to use a proxy and set that proxy to your own IP running the VPN tunnel ?
"Freenet" worked on P2P base and would require for your computer to get the list of addresses to connect to from another "trusted" member of the P2P network, so it was a "invitation based" network configured by hand and very hard to operate. TOR was easy but came intro play later. Even so TOR would route the traffic on other computers of the network to hide your IP but there was no way to create "hidden services" inside TOR network.
TOR became popular and useful to "normal people" when they provided a TOR BROWSER bundle that people would install and it would auto-configure the bundled browser to use TOR.
Back when MM went missing pedos were using P2P sharing networks like Kazaa, Emule, etc to share child abuse content and they were using usernet newsgroups. On that time it was very easy to bust people with child *advertiser censored* as the files even if partially would exist on the computer of the person sharing it and the IP would be public available to the people fetching the files.
At any rate I did work directly with missing children cases back on 2008 and pedos on that time weren't using encrypted, layer based VPNs like TOR at all. It was very technical and sophisticated for the majority of people. The so called "DarkWeb" is nothing more than hidden servers on the TOR network. And goes without saying TOR was NEVER created for pedophiles/illegal stuff, it was rather created to bypass censorship in some countries like China, etc. They only added the feature of hosting hidden servers way later and those "servers" were never meant to be used to host pedo forums.
Because of that majority of pedo forums and sites on Darkweb are VERY EASY to crack/read/access by any LEA agent even if they can't locate the IP of the persons on the sites they can still read all the content.