Hunting Warhead

By: CBC
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  • How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the darkest corners of the internet. What they discover shocks them. Host Daemon Fairless tracks down the investigators, survivors and criminals themselves. A co-production of CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG. For the best in true crime from CBC, ad-free, visit apple.co/cbctruecrime.
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  • Trailer - Hunting Warhead

    Trailer - Hunting Warhead
    Sep 16 2019
    A new investigative series from CBC Podcasts and the Norwegian newspaper VG, Hunting Warhead follows an international team of police officers as they attempt to track down the people behind a massive child-abuse site on the dark web — and the morally complicated lengths authorities will go to to do so. Coming November 2019.
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    3 mins
  • Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker

    Episode 1: Hacker vs. Hacker
    Nov 4 2019

    Einar Stangvik is a white-hat hacker — an internet security expert with an expertise in cracking the most secure and disturbing parts of the web. He discovers a troubling phenomenon online and joins forces with journalist Håkon Høydal. It leads them to Australia, to confront two men who are running the largest child abuse site on the dark net. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/hunting-warehead-transcripts-listen-1.5346693
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    54 mins
  • Episode 2: Rude Awakening

    Episode 2: Rude Awakening
    Nov 4 2019

    All Gordon wants for his birthday is to travel to Washington, D.C., to visit museums and see the opera. He’s completely unaware that his companion on this trip has very different plans. His friend has an alter ego, Warhead, and it turns out police are not far behind. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/hunting-warehead-transcripts-listen-1.5346693
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    44 mins

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Fantastic!

This podcast is an impeccably researched, outstanding production that is a gripping, fascinating, and shocking gutpunch. Superb.

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Incredible and Terrifying

This podcast is a powerful and eye-opening listen. While the media dismisses concerns about child trafficking and sexual exploitation as mere conspiracy theories, trump supporters, or QANON, this podcast reveals a disturbing glimpse of the grim reality, and it's just a small part of a larger evil.

There are dangerous individuals strangers, parents, close relatives, and more out there who prey on children for their twisted motives, exploiting them for financial gain. Parents, stay vigilant—protect your children and be aware of those around you. Do not dismiss a child as a bad kid because they are acting out, or a nasty child because they may have done something they did not know was wrong. You never know what might be happening behind closed doors or on the dark web.

Matthew 18:6 (NIV):
"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."

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Superb podcast on a painful topic

It's almost a shame that such an outstanding team has taken on this subject because it will certainly limit the # of people that can bear to listen. But the topic just underscores how great they are that they manage to really get inside the minds of the criminals and the hunters and explain them both.

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