Hunting Warhead: Episode 3, "Operation Artemis"
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- After the arrest of Canadian Benjamin Faulkner, Taskforce Argos has to learn how to become Warhead on Child’s Play, before its users realize that the site has been compromised. But time is running out - and very difficult moral decisions will have to be made.
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About Hunting Warhead:
How do you take down a criminal network that's hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world?
Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them.
Host Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. This series is a co-production between CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG.
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Well done Argos. Not all heroes wear capes.
They encouraged abuse, how in the world does that make them heroes?
You don't know they weren't wearing capes through this entire thing. It was mostly done in cyberspace afterall
My heart breaks for those involved in these operations who has to look at all of thise terrible pictures.
My heart breaks for the individuals who were IN those terrible pictures
I can't thank the investigators, hackers, journalists and all the people that do everything to stop this disgusting crime.
@@royalcass I think their is enough room to have empathy for both.
I have no idea what the controversy is about. Literally ONE child is worth it. All of it. The abusers obviously don't care about the "law". So sometimes you can't either. That simple.
You’re sick! They gave these pricks permission to abuse more kids….
The criticism is so stupid. If the board had been shut down immediately, another board would have popped up and kids would have still been abused. They in no way 'facilitated abuse' as others have accused them of doing.
By monitoring the board they were able to track and trace these monsters and rescue the kids.
A Norwegian chief of police actually spoke out against the VG (the Norwegian tabloid) article, as did a Belgian journalist who investigates child abuse. They said that the article set back international child protection agency co-operation.
Also, the VG journalists traced the server in Australia, yet didn't contact the Norwegian police to tell them they'd found it. They were more concerned with getting a story. If they were in it to help children they would have handed it over to authorities immediately. They were also super entitled thinking that the Police should hand over information to them for their article. Why should they? The Police have enough to think about, than some tabloid article.
They also, in my opinion, crossed a massive ethical line by interviewing Faulkner and his mother, by allowing him a platform to minimise his abuse. How disrespectful to the victims.
I agree with you on the vast majority of your opinions. However, I think hearing from Benjamin Faulkner is very important. It shows what a self-centered, self-serving lier he really is. I think it helps drive the point home to everyone how disgusting these people really are. Most people in the general public don't seem to understand the extent of this issue and how horrible it really is. If listening to that disgusting excuse for a human being brings attention to the issue I am 100% for it! The podcast clearly demonstrates he has two sides. One that is the real person and the fake person that lies to reach his goals. I think people need to hear him in both roles. Maybe it helps get someone else to be involved and analyze the people around your children.
@@angeliqueoren2462 They can bring attention to monsters like this without directly interviewing Faulkner. And it should be carried out by a professional who would understand how to handle a sex offender like that. They could have consulted a sex offender specialist to interview Faulkner on their behalf and then taken quotes from that.
They already had interviewed Jen, who gave a very good account of what happened and serves as a warning to other families.
And it's disrespectful and damaging to the victim to allow a sex offender to talk about their crimes in this way. If you can't see what's wrong with that? Then it seems you value sensationalism more than the victims' feelings.
I give it up, to everyone of these men and women, whom are forced to sit through, watching these videos, look at pictures, and endure ALL This horrendously vile torture, abuse, and rape of these innocent children.
I do not know how they do it, and then go on living a normal life with their own families. And not be haunted by these images, that are now permanently etched into their minds. Ugh
I hope that they all are able to find a peaceful serenity within some hobby, place, entertainment, or Whatever, to get them ‘sanely’ through their lives. Heck get them through each day, hour, and even minute.
I applaud them, Bigtime.
And I truly honor them and the work that they do!
Many Positive Vibes and Good-Hearted Blessings to them all!
Also…
It is so heart-warming and Beyond, to see these different organizations Around the World, working together as a True Team, too!!!
We desperately Need That, for ALL Crimes.
Imho.
As well as, we all need to ‘learn’ from each other, too!
I believe that the efforts made by the undercover agents serve to not just save children, low number or not, but their inconspicuous presence among these sites hopefully stokes a little fear into the people that engage on it. That it makes the abusers who publish those images take more and more precautions. Make it more difficult for them to do so. More risk. The alternative would be to let them run rampant with little barrier to entry? There is a case to be made for this beyond just the number of children saved.
I wonder if this could be made into a movie or mini series
Id rather not watch that tbh podcast was enough to turn my stomach
I doubt enough people would want to watch it.
No thank you 🤢 This is kinda like a mini series anyways…
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As important as this kind of reporting is I can't help thinking it's just a guide on how to avoid getting caught?
it’s not. someone from my church who listened to this podcast several times and just got booked. he was incredible at hacking, penetration testing and coding. he wasn’t the one caught ..his friend was. his friend gave him up.
@@dalpaengi I'm not sure if you're talking about your friend or warhead? Warhead was not turned in by his friend, his friend was with him when he got busted but the FBI didn't even know he was with him and the poor guy had no idea and wasn't involved in what was going on. He definitely turned evidence, but he didn't really know much. Warhead got caught because they made a connection between posts on a help forum regarding a problem he was having on the darknet site that the FBI knew about. He also used the same greeting in both places that's when they started watching him. Those two facts alone can inform someone how to mask themselves.
It was going to be a matter of public record regardless because there would be trials. Make no mistake, these scumbags dedicate their entire lives to this, nothing on some podcast is going to make a difference. Or a trial for that matter. Unfortunately, they learn from their "mistakes" and move on. And they are everywhere.
@@dalpaengi why is it always in the church....
@@royalcass It's not but lots of people go to church whether they believe in religion or not because it's the easiest way to connect with communities that have a lot of people that participate in the church.
I could probably say the same thing about crossfit or university if I mined the data long enough.
This VG reporter is super entitled. The police are not obligated to disclose numbers, or any other information to a tabloid- whose main goal is sensationalism and making money.
And piling on the criticism onto people who are already doing the world's most stressful and traumatic job. Of course they reacted badly to the article.
The reporter is doing their job. And if you listened to previous podcasts, when they stumbled upon the police undercover- they held their story from print in order to help them maintain their cover. Do you know how hard it is to convince an editor/publisher to do that as a reporter? It’s a crazy field of work and equally dangerous, if not more so in this case (as they are doing the same job as police without weapons/backup). Try to have some grace.
@@Ellistrami 'Doing their job' doesn't entitle them to sensitive information.
And when they stumbled across the site and went to track down the owners in Australia (not realising it was the police)- they didn't even alert authorities that they had information that could help them.
At that point they should have told the police about where the site was being operated from, but instead they cared more about getting a story, and sensationalism.
Even the police say something along the lines of 'The reporter are interested in getting a story, we are interested in saving children'.
And not only that, but some police (I believe from Belgium and Norway) spoke out against VG because of how they handled this story and many in child protection were upset with them as well, because they publicly disclosed police methods.
@@leopardprints you mean to say they aren’t entitled to information they themselves stumbled across?
I get people don’t like the media thanks to those on the political side of things. However, let’s be real. There are many times police would REFUSE to do their job WITHOUT pressure from the media.
You think diddy or any of these others would have ever been arrested without being pressured for years on end by the media?
The media and law enforcement work hand in hand, and is in itself a form of checks and balances. Media, while of course excluding scummy paparazzi and political reporting, is fully necessary to keep law enforcement honest.
@@Ellistrami No, they're not entitled to know the statistics, that the police likely didn't even know at that time.
You clearly prioritise sensationalism over child protection.
You can't conflate celebrities like Diddy with sex offenders who operate online and are very difficult to track. These police officers had been doing amazing work long before the VG tabloids came along, and made their job a lot harder.
Incredibly profound debate between consequentialist and deontic tactics. Interesting how government agencies are innately consequential, while individual members of society are held to a deontological system with rigid categorical imperatives. Not sure what to make of it
you might want to look into this guy. ^^^
How are government agencies innately consequential? I don't quite understand your argument
They can use CGI or consenting models who look young. They also use images they have access to that they were given permission from the people in the photos to use to help catch people. Please provide a better tactic on catching them?
@@Scede I wasn’t making an argument. I just said it’s interesting haha.
@@Hythlodaeus69 Fair enough. However, I still don't understand what you mean by "government agencies are innately consequential". Maybe you could explain this a bit further?
34:20 No you didn't create the board, but its now in your possession.. Every day that such a community is allowed to continue, more sick individuals are encouraged to actually act on their fantasies. Take down the people you can, but you can't get past the fact that you are facilitating more abuse.
He sounds like nounce!🤢🤬
If the board had been shut down immediately, another board would have been created and the abuse would have continued.
Isn't it 'better' that the board continued to be monitored so they can trace these abusers and stop the production of these images?
How many kids have you rescued from sexual exploitation? How many hours of your life have you dedicated to watching horrific videos of kids being abused in order to rescue them?
@@user-ph3ji8gp3p ok....now lets use the same logic with drugs. should cops become drug dealers in order to bust other dealers and users? shut down one operation and another will pop up
how many users were actually arrested and convicted?
That's my problem with these undercover organisations. The public isn't even allowed to view such sites in order to report them. Yet they think they are "above the law" and can post pictures of abuse which weren't available to find before. It is well-known that in order to get and keep access to those sites, members (even more so an actual admin) have to frequently post pictures of their own aka pictures that weren't in circulation before.
There have to be borders that should not even be crossed with "good" intentions.
Task force Argos said they didn’t do that in taking down the site in the boy with the henna tattoo documentary there contradicting them selves here . The same guy can in this interview the leader of task force Argos said in the boy with the henna tattoo documentary that they would never post images or allow people to do continue to do that so they contradict themselves
They can use CGI or consenting models who look young. They also use images they have access to that they were given permission from the people in the photos to use to help catch people. Also reporting them does nothing. If the public can easily access these sites then you can guarantee the cops know about them. They will just scatter to another more well hidden site.
@@hitmewithyourvan6662 'They will just scatter to another more well hidden site.'- this is exactly why the criticism is so stupid. If they shut down the site immediately, another site would pop up and they would have to start all over again. Kids would still be abused.
How many kids have you rescued from sexual exploitation?
Your comment comes off as dangerously close to being mad they're disrupting these sites and wanting to view child abuse content yourself (you "aren't even allowed to"?). I'm sure you didn't mean it this way but boy does it kind of feel that way. No it is not, "well known" how to maintain an account with dark web child sexual abuse sites.
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Lawyers love to tell front line workers what they should or should not do. I am sick of it.
Are you referring to the law professor? It's very easy for these professors to be criticising the police when they are not the ones dealing with these horrific crimes on a daily basis.
I wonder how many children she has rescued from abuse?
Jk
Artemis methods sure seem dangerous to me and unethical and extremely receptive for corruption. And their reasons for behaving depraved is weak, to say they can't investigate with ethically and with decent morals.
Said like the truly naive.
Yet their method pays off day after day
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