'Bulletproof hosts' storing child porn, malware on Dutch servers

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'Bulletproof hosts' storing child porn, malware on Dutch servers
May 28, 2019
https://nltimes.nl/2019/05/28/bulletproof-hosts-storing-child-porn-malware-dutch-servers

Dozens of often foreign hosting companies are storing child pornography, malware and stolen data on Dutch servers. The Public Prosecution Service is teaming up with the network of hosting companies in the Netherlands to address this problem, NOS reports.
Among all those intermediaries are a number of so-called 'bulletproof hosts', who focus specifically on a criminal clientele and offer space on servers for phishing, sending spam, or storing child pornography, among other things.

That has to stop, the Public Prosecutor and Dutch hosting companies believe. The industry developed a new guideline to keep out illegal content. And the Public Prosecution Service is looking into whether companies that do not adhere to this new guideline can be prosecuted more quickly.

It is currently very difficult to prosecute bulletproof hosts, cyber crime prosecutor Martijn Egberts explained to NOS. "There is a European regulation that states that you cannot, in principle, hold companies responsible for the content they host", he said. "It is extremely difficult to prove that they are deliberately closing their eyes to what is stored with them or exchanged on their network."
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