Ryan Montgomery

I don't have children.

I wasn't abused as a child.

Like, you know, like I...

It had to have been a God thing for me.

So I go home with the intention of trying to probe around this website and take it down, which without all the technical details for the nerds that are listening, like I was going to do a distributed denial of service attack.

Just keep the site shut down.

Like it would have been impossible to load the site, which is a very simple, easy attack to do.

It sounds crazy, but it's a very easy one.

But I got lucky, if you want to say lucky, I got lucky that they used a forum called Zenforo, and they used a theme that happened to be nulled, meaning they didn't pay for access to use this theme.

And that theme gave me access to their entire server, which included their entire database.

So now this website that...

is absolutely terrible, that children are on selling themselves, that people are on looking for that type of material and chatting about it on an open forum that anyone can read.

I now have full access to their entire site to download anything I want and to try to uncover who's running it.

So I started to have a little bit of common sense because I got an adrenaline rush at this point when I realized I have access to this.

Common sense started to kick in.

If you download all of this data, you're going to be in possession of CSAM.

And I didn't know the term CSAM back then.

I just used the term child porn.

And I don't like the word child porn personally.

I feel like it implies consent.