One particular category was entitled “Super Hardcore.” The rules for that category described in graphic language that the only posts permitted were those involving adults having violent sexual intercourse with “very young kids” who were being subjected to both physical and sexual abuse and were obviously “in distress, and or crying.MANCHESTER, N.H. The board rules also required members to organize postings based on the type of content. Approved members were required to observe strict posting rules designed to encourage members to disseminate large quantities of child pornography, thwart efforts by law enforcement to identify members of the board, and encourage members to sexually abuse children in order to produce new material for the board. The rules required prospective members to upload material depicting children under the age of 12 engaged in sexually explicit activity. The bulletin board included rules of conduct, printed in English, Russian, Japanese and Spanish. Individuals advanced to higher levels of membership by providing child abuse images that the individual had produced, providing a large number of images, or providing images that had never been seen before. The higher the rank, the more material was available to the member.
Those in the lower ranks could only access a limited quantity of child pornography on the bulletin board. Individuals in the lowest level of membership were called Members.
The next level after Super VIP was the VIP rank. The next level of membership was “Super VIP,” which was comprised of trusted members of the website. The highest level of membership was “Super VIP.” Individuals who obtained that title had created new images of child pornography by molesting children and shared those images with the board administrators. Dreamboard members also encouraged the use of encryption programs on their computers, which password-protect computer files to prevent law enforcement from accessing them in the event of a court-authorized search.Īccording to court documents, Dreamboard members were divided into groups based on status and ranking. Members accessed the board via proxy servers, which routed internet traffic through othercomputers so as to disguise a user's actual location and prevent law enforcement from tracing internet activity.
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Links to child pornography posted on Dreamboard were required to be encrypted with a password that was shared only with other members. Members communicated using aliases or “screen names,” rather than their actual names. For every tactic taken to evade law enforcement, we will adapt our strategies to find them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.” According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Dreamboard members employed a variety of measures designed to conceal their criminal activity from detection by law enforcement. “Criminals with this kind of depravity in mind should know that ICE's Homeland Security Investigations is ever vigilant. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. “Wyss and the other conspirators of the nightmare called Dreamboard mistakenly believed that they could commit heinous crimes against children and hide in the shadows,” said Director of U.S.
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