What is operation pacifier?

Operation Pacifier was a covert operation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2015 that targeted a website called "Playpen." Playpen was a website that hosted child pornography, and it had operated on the dark web for over a year before the FBI shut it down.

During the operation, the FBI took control of the website and kept it running for two weeks. They installed a hack that allowed them to identify the IP addresses of visitors to the site, and they used this information to arrest over 200 people around the world who had visited the site.

The operation was controversial because the FBI effectively facilitated the spread of child pornography while taking over the website, and some argued that this was ethically questionable. However, the FBI defended the operation, claiming that it was necessary to take down a significant child pornography ring and to apprehend its members.