http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/08/silk-road-hack-suspicion-fbi-server
By Charles Arthur
theguardian.com
8 October 2013
There's a new theory about how the FBI And CIA tracked down the physical
location of the Silk Road servers, and it has nothing to do with the man
accused of being the site's operator, Ross Ulbricht, or queries he might
have made on StackExchange.
Instead, the rumour in hacker circles is that the CIA - with or without
the help of the National Security Agency - accessed the server via Tor,
and somehow ran an exploit on it which meant that they could locate it
over the "normal" internet.
Having done that, they then got in touch with the company hosting the
server itself (which may be in Iceland, as we'll explain) and then managed
to take an image of the server. They may also have planted tracking
systems on the server which allowed them to trace those who logged in to
Silk Road - which would certainly help to explain how the British police
last week arrested four men on suspicion of supplying controlled
substances through Silk Road.
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