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n rooms, 104,000 subscribers, 260,000 onlookers...
What is the concept of this number? In 2019, there are about 26 million Korean men, that is to say, one out of every 100 Korean men has entered this Telegram chat room called "Room N".
The operators of Room N obtained women’s private information through Twitter and other social platforms, and threatened to force them to become “slaves”. They were sexually persecuted and exploited in unimaginable ways, and various live videos were shot. Upload to these chat rooms. Victims include a large number of minors, and even infants.
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Source of information: Screenshot of Twitter
Each member who enters the room to watch these videos is charged a membership fee ranging from 250,000 to 1.5 million won (8,400 yuan), and each transaction is made in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. The amount of the membership fee determines the scale of photos or videos that can be seen (entering rooms of different levels).
After the incident was revealed, it shocked the world. More than 4 million South Koreans petitioned for the severe punishment of the murderer, and more than 1.3 million petitioned to announce the true identities of these 260,000 people. For now, things are still unfolding.
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Source of information: South Korean anchor Ashley Kang Twitter screenshot
Encryption technology is "stigmatized" again
While the public is paying attention to the incident itself, Telegram and Bitcoin, which are the platform and payment tool for Room N, have been pushed to the forefront.
The MTProto encryption used by Telegram is very strong. At the same time, the chat information between contacts can only be accessed on the device that initiates the secret chat and the device that accepts the secret chat. Even if the server has the authority, it cannot be decrypted. And you can set the self-destruction time of the message to realize "burn after reading".
Source of information: Telegram official Twitter screenshot
Here, the content is completely encrypted and cannot be supervised, and personal privacy is fully protected. Therefore, it has become a so-called hotbed of freedom, and it will inevitably lead to the proliferation of illegal information.
Due to the concept of "user privacy is inviolable" that Telegram founder Pavel Durov has always adhered to, terrorists once chose to use Telegram to communicate and avoid supervision from government agencies, which also made Telegram a fish that slipped through the Russian government's speech censorship. As early as 2017, the Russian government hoped that through the anti-terrorism regulations passed in 2016, it required communication service providers to provide a way to decrypt user messages. It hoped that Telegram would hand over the key of user chat content, but was rejected by Telegram.
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Image credit: Telegram founder Pavel Durov's response to the Russian government
In this room N incident, the South Korean police also successively sent requests to Telegram to delete the illegal video and obtain the personal information of the relevant illegal video uploader. The latter makes no reply.
The strong umbrella and extremely low risk of crime have become the reasons for the unscrupulous operators of Room N.
As for the fact that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have become covert channels for criminal teams to profit. Judging from the investigation results of foreign media, "Dr. There are a total of 3 personal encrypted currency wallet address accounts disclosed in the "Doctor's Room", and the amount in one of the accounts is as high as 3.2 billion won (about 18.39 million yuan).
It is actually not the first time that cryptocurrency has been used to do evil.
In November 2011, a website named "Silk Road" was established, and a network trading platform hidden in the dark depths was opened. The platform is full of contraband from various countries, such as arms, drugs, organs, child pornography, assassination services, etc. Illegal transactions are clearly priced, and only Bitcoin transactions are supported.
After the exposure of the dark web, the topic of Bitcoin was once tied to it. Although with the development of blockchain applications, it is gradually untied from the dark web, but the stigmatization has not stopped. This time in the Room N incident, the remarks about Bitcoin doing evil have once again come to the fore.
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"Technology itself is not shameful"
Paradoxically, Satoshi Nakamoto's original intention of establishing Bitcoin was to construct an anonymous, decentralized, and free system to fight against the real power. However, it is sad that it is now being used for various illegal transactions.
Wang Xin also argued at the trial that "technology itself is not shameful." Indeed, technologies such as Bitcoin are like a knife. You can use it to cut vegetables, or you can use it to kill people.
Although Bitcoin is moving towards the mainstream, in the dark web that we cannot touch, Bitcoin is still the number one "universal currency", and it is still stepping towards the light with one foot and stepping into darkness with the other. Therefore, as we have always expected, as a cryptocurrency on the edge of finance, supervision is urgent, and freedom also has boundaries, that is, not to violate the boundaries of others. And how to load compliance and supervision on the "decentralization" attribute is the next thing to do.
At the same time, it should be noted that legal supervision and moral condemnation are for those people who use technology to do evil, rather than stigmatizing encryption technology.
talk about human nature
And going back to the Room N incident itself, we are not so much talking about whether the cryptocurrency is evil, but rather talking about human nature.
In fact, even though Room N has been banned, videos are still being sold and disseminated through various channels. In the past few days, a large number of viewers have poured into another encrypted chat software called Discord.
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Image source: Discord activity interface
