All language subtitles for Dark Net - 01x03 - Exploit.

The Web transforms us.

We become data...

code...

uploading our very selves...

...to a place
we call the cloud.

But this cloud is grounded
in hardware,

a chaos of code.

But with the right tools,

you can find the signal
in the noise.

Nobody ever
suspected anything.

I was a newspaper editor,

I coached,
I was volunteering my time.

I had really good friends,

and I had
a really good family.

That's probably
one of the reasons

it came as such a shock
to people when I was arrested.

I've had to spend my whole life

lying and explaining
and being worried about,

"Is someone going
to figure this out?"

I've tried to control myself
the best I could.

I've tried to lead the best
life that I possibly could.

I know that my life
would've been different,

not wonderful,
but at least better,

if I'd never gone
on the Internet.

A girl
on the other side of the world

drawn into the darkest corner
of the Internet.

Here, you can find child porn,
drugs, guns,

fake passports,
counterfeit money.

It's a place
where everyone is anonymous

and invisible
to law enforcement.

Welcome to the Dark Web.

You might be tempted
to see it for yourself.

And what's the harm?

What's one more click?

But if you show your body,
3,000, 5,000.

In one show, in 30 minutes,

it's easy.

Child cybersex.

It's an epidemic
on the island of Cebu.

Jonna Nunez,

an outreach worker
for the NGO FORGE

is fighting it door-to-door.

Even the little boy,
even the little girl,

they know already

what is cyber pornography.

It's a show-show

to remove your clothes,

to show your body
to the computer,

to the Internet.

Internet access

is growing faster
in the Philippines

than almost anywhere
in the world,

and 80% of it is broadband.

On the other end
of these cables are servers,

some hidden in the Dark Web.

You need a special browser

to access this part
of the Internet,

one that conceals
your computer's IP address.

The first of these browsers
was Tor, the Onion Router,

named for its layers
of encryption.

Tor and the Dark Web
was originally a project

started by
the Navy Research Lab

here in the United States

to protect the communications

of U.S. government personnel.

Greg Virgin spent eight years

working for the NSA
and the Department of Defense.

Later, with his own
cyber security company,

he helped make Tor
a useful tool

for political dissidents
abroad,

giving them a safe way
to communicate

without fear of reprisal.

So, Tor project has servers

all over the world,

and those servers
accept connections

from users like our guy here,

and then bounces
that signal around.

All of these connections
are encrypted,

so no one can piece together
who this person is

and what this person is doing.

The government
made Tor freely available,

and it was soon put
to more sinister use.

The Dark Web was born.

Every day, an estimated
2.5 million people

use Tor to visit the Dark Web.

The amount of child porn here
is staggering...

over 100 million sexually
explicit images of children,

not to mention live streaming
on webcams.

So, I've just
opened up the Tor browser,

and now it's possible for us

to anonymously browse
the Dark Net.

To avoid
breaking the law himself,

Greg looks only at text,
not images.

This is a site
that's live right now.

You can see that there's
a really disturbing trend

toward younger
and younger children

that the Dark Web fosters,

some ages as young as infants.

There's even a term
called "pedo mom"

for mothers who are
trading their children around

in the community.

There have been
a number of sites

dedicated to child torture,

conversations about

exactly how to torture a child.

Greg's goal is to understand

how child porn is traded
on the Dark Web

so that law enforcement
can stay a step ahead.

Just to gain access
to these sites,

you have to trade
in original child abuse content.

They are getting you
to break the law

to make sure
you're not law enforcement,

and weeding out people

who aren't
authentic pedophiles.

It's a community
of relentless users

that's becoming more and more
difficult for law enforcement,

for analysts to break into.

Are you holding Winnie?

- I am holding...
- Or G.I. Joe?

No, I'm holding Winnie.

So sweet.

Yeah, who knew?

Yeah, well.

That's a sweet picture.

Yeah.

He has one little finger
sticking out there.

I think I started having

feelings of sexual attraction
toward children,

probably when I was about
15 or 16.

I can't explain the attraction,

all I can tell you is
I wish to God I didn't have it.

I watched child pornography

and searched for child
pornography every night.

I looked at pictures
of children that were nude,

and yes,
I did look at pictures

and films of children
in sexual acts

with other children
and with adults.

David says he
has never had physical contact

or webcam sex with a child.

He was arrested in 2012 for
possessing child pornography

and for buying it
on the Internet.

The feelings are overpowering.

It just... it runs through
your entire body.

The power of that addiction
trumps everything.

The only two things
that would stop me

from looking
at child pornography

was being arrested or dying.

I'm interested in getting

into these individual's minds,

this very secret place

of being aroused
by a situation like that.

At a high-security

psychiatric hospital
in Montreal

is a darkroom
known as La Cave... The Vault.

Here, Patrice Renaud
and his team of psychologists

probe the innermost thoughts
of convicted sex offenders.

We start
by installing the EEG cap.

We then proceed
with the stereoscopic glasses

in which we have
a built-in eye-tracking device.

We then ask the subject

to install himself
the penile gauge,

which gives us an idea
of the tumescence,

that is the level of erection
that the guy present

at every moment
during the procedure.

We then present

a series of animations
and visual immersion

that brings the individual
back to a state

and the place that
brought them to offend.

Children are playing
in a nearby pool,

and you notice a little girl
about 8 to 10 years old

who is walking away
from the pool toward you.

You are thinking about how much
you would like to touch her.

While the subject is immersed

in this virtual scene
of the crime,

the team monitors
his physiological responses.

If he tries to suppress
his erection by looking away,

the eye-tracking catches him.

The results are used
to determine

how dangerous the offender is

and whether he needs
to be incarcerated.

With the guy

that we're working with
at the moment,

we recreated a scene

in which he was molesting

a 6-year-old girl
in his apartment

and killing her afterward,
sadly.

So, we want to understand

what motive the individual
had at the moment.

Is the killing

also a sexual part
of the crime?

So, it becomes a way

to go even deeper
in the psyche of the individual

as it comes
to his sexual preferences.

An estimated
1% of men are pedophiles,

meaning that their dominant
sexual attraction

is to prepubescent children,

even if they never act on it.

Many psychologists
see pedophilia

as a deep-rooted preference

that can't be changed,
only managed.

An undercover investigator

with the Children's
Legal Bureau,

a Filipino NGO,
is meeting with his informant.

The couple is allegedly

abusing their own children
on webcam

for foreign customers.

These are photos
from the case file.

The older daughter, age 12,

and the younger one, age 10.

Okay.

My name is Sweetie.

I'm 10 years old.

I live in the Philippines.

Every day, I have to sit
in front of the webcam

and talk to men.

They play with themselves.

They want me
play with myself.

But what they don't know...

I'm not real.

I'm a computer model.

"Sweetie" was the bait

in a global sting operation

conducted by the Dutch NGO,
Terre des Hommes, in 2013.

As soon as I go online,

they come to me.

10... 100 every hour.

So many.

Sweetie fooled more men

than anyone could've imagined.

Over a 10-week period,
more than 20,000 guys

offered to pay her
for webcam sex.

1,000 of them gave up
personal information

from 71 countries.

If you think that's a lot
of customers, consider this...

Sweetie was only introduced
in 19 chatrooms,

but the FBI estimates

that there are over
40,000 chatrooms

where, at any given moment,

3/4 of a million people
are looking for child porn.

The original Sweetie
was controlled

by four researchers
in an Amsterdam warehouse.

Sweetie 2.0 will be able
to generate her own dialogue

and carry on thousands
of conversations

at the same time,

but only
if she can gain access

to the heavily encrypted sites
where child porn is traded.

Sweetie may have evolved,

but the Dark Web
is evolving faster.

At some point,

doing the investigations
is going to become too hard.

I don't feel that there's a way
around the encryption,

and I do honestly feel

that it's only
a matter of time

before we have very private,
very inaccessible sites

that perform very well

and give this particular
class of consumer

everything that they need.

I would say it's moving
twice as fast

as some of the trends
in cyber security.

I think we've only got
a couple more years.

As a sting operation,

Sweetie was not
entirely successful.

Europol warned that some judges
would consider it entrapment.

Of those 20,000 men
who took the bait,

only 6 have been convicted.

But there's no doubt
that Sweetie helped

raise awareness
about child cybersex.

Shortly after my arrest...

"To me, since my arrest..."

Okay.

And my phone number.

Oh, and your phone number.

I was released
on the conditions

that I couldn't use
the Internet

or have a computer in my home,

and that I couldn't
go anywhere

where children
would congregate,

like parks

or recreation centers,
swimming pools.

When I was looking at children
on the Internet,

I hated myself for doing it.

I knew it was wrong.

I knew the children
in child pornography

had been abused,

and they suffered
horrible consequences

for the rest of their lives.

Sometimes I would just stare
at these kids and wonder like,

you know, where are they now,

and what horrible things they've
gone through in their life.

You think about it
sort of in the abstract,

but it doesn't stop you
from doing what you're doing.

Psychologists
call this "dissociation"...

a screen allows you
to detach

your real self
from your online behavior

and create
an alternative reality

where social norms
no longer apply.

I'm not defending
looking at child pornography,

but if people
weren't producing it,

we wouldn't be looking at it.

Producers of child
pornography in the Philippines

are being targeted.

Every so often,
another raid makes the news.

Children watch the police

take their parents away
in handcuffs.

The children are relocated
to a government shelter

where they live until their
parents serve out prison terms.

But fighting child cybersex
at the source

is like fighting
the heroin trade

by spraying poppy fields.

If global demand
is strong enough,

there will always be people
eager to meet it,

especially in poor countries
like the Philippines.

For over two years,

the Children's Legal Bureau
has been trying

to get the local police
to arrest the couple

allegedly pimping
their own children.

The investigators have built
an impressive case,

including a floor plan
of the house...

everything they need
for a search warrant.

But every time they schedule
a case conference,

the police postpone.

You'd think the community
would be up in arms.

The community,
they already know

the operation of this family,

but some of the neighbors
depend on this family

because they can easy
borrow money from them,

so it's better to keep silence
and do nothing.

What we're seeing
right now on the Dark Web

is market creation.

So, in much the same way
there were a bunch

of failed social media site
attempts before Facebook,

what we see in the Dark Web
is sites, forums

that are coming and going

in a community
of relentless users

who are really working
to build

what hopefully
I'm wrong about,

is this more perfect way
of sharing child pornography.

If 1% of the general population
really has these cravings,

think about the amount
of currently unmet demands

these networks could be
meeting.

It's a very dangerous time.

It's a bit like
an arms race, in a sense,

because with the advent

of Internet
and virtual reality,

pornography evolves,

and child pornography
will evolve,

and we try to be always
a step ahead.

Professor Renaud and his team

are exploring the use
of virtual reality

to help pedophiles
control their impulses.

Even if something bad
happens here,

let's say he has
a full-on erection,

there is absolutely
no children... it's virtual.

Which raises
an intriguing question.

What if child avatars
like Sweetie

could be used as virtual
partners for pedophiles...

a safe way to satisfy
their urges?

Maybe fewer real children
would be harmed.

It's a risky proposition.

For some men, it might have
the opposite effect.

Using virtual reality
to experience sexuality

is a very delicate matter

since some fantasies
may be lived very intensely

and can leave traits
in the brain.

So where is the boundary?
Where's the limits?

What can we really allow
an individual to do?

There's no cure,
there's no crackdown

that will delete
child pornography

from our world.

We're left to our own devices
and our ability

to learn that every click
has consequences.

I don't think anybody
can explain their attractions.

I think
it's the luck of the draw.

We can't control what we are.

What we can control
is what we do.

Meanwhile,

child cybersex
continues to spread,

especially
in the developing world.

If we can address the poverty,

if we can address
the vulnerability,

that is really
what we should be doing

regardless
of what's happening online.

We are fighting this battle

for the future of our children.