Alleged Tor hidden service operator busted for child porn distribution

On Friday, Eric Eoin Marques, a 28 year-old Dublin resident, was arrested on a warrant from the US on charges that he is, in the words of a FBI agent to an Irish court, “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet.” The arrest coincides with the disappearance of a vast number of “hidden services” hosted on Tor, the anonymizing encrypted network.