I had three different screenshots of this horrible website that was on the clear web that anyone could visit.

I had three different screenshots of this horrible website that was on the clear web that anyone could visit. This is like not the quote-unquote dark web that people talk about. Um, it it's really just the it's called Tor, the onion router. Um, on the clear web, anyone can see this website and one of these three photos was a picture of a child that was sitting in a bathtub. You can see their back, like you can tell that they were nude, but you can just see their back. And the title of the forum post said, um, they have no idea what's going to happen to them tonight. And underneath of it, all of these people were talk were talking about what they were going to do to this person's child. So, this is my first time ever seeing anything like this and I I my you know, I'm like disgusted to on a level that I've never felt before. So, I leave where I'm at. I physically left the location of where I was at because, you know, I I I just had this switch flip in my brain that I didn't know I had. I don't have children, I wasn't abused as a child, like you know, like like I this had to have been a God thing for me. So, I go home with the intention on of of trying to probe around this website and and take it down, which without all the technical details for the nerds that are listening, um, like I was going to do a distributed denial of service attack to 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, uh, if you want to say lucky, I got lucky that they used a forum called Zenforo and they used the 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 their entire server, which included their entire database. So, now this website that is absolutely terrible, that's that children are on selling themselves, that people are on looking for that type of material, and chatting about it in on an open forum that anyone can read, um, I now have full access to their entire site to to download anything I want and to try to uncover who who's running it. So, I uh I I start to have a little bit of common sense that because I I got an adrenaline rush at this point when I realized I have access to this. Since they're to kick in, if you download all of this data, you're going to be in possession of CSAM. And uh and I didn't know the term CSAM back then, I just used the term child porn, and um, you know, I don't like the word child porn personally, I feel like it implies consent, but the the I knew that if I downloaded this database, I cannot include images, uh, videos, any attachments, because when I go to deliver this to law enforcement, I don't want to get wrapped up in anything like that. The last thing I need is somebody Google searching Ryan Montgomery and then something like that horrible comes up, you know? So, I thought about that even back then.