http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/fbi-snags-silk-road-boss-with-own-methods.html
FBI Snags Silk Road Boss With Own Methods By Greg Farrell - Oct 3, 2013 2:40 PM PT From an Internet café in San Francisco, a 29-year-old free-market evangelist who called himself “Dread Pirate Roberts” allegedly used untraceable web services, an international network of servers and anonymous digital currency to run a global online exchange of cocaine and heroin. For two years, cybercrime experts from the FBI pored over the secretive online drug bazaar, known as Silk Road -- an operation that prosecutors say had become, by the time they shut it down this week, the venue for as much as $1 billion worth of illegal transactions. [snip] In October 2011, altoid surfaced again on the Bitcoin forum, seeking an “IT pro” to help build a Bitcoin startup company and directing potential job candidates to the Gmail account of someone named Ross Ulbricht. From a Google profile associated with the account, the FBI learned that Ulbricht had an interest in the Austrian school of economics and the Ludwig von Mises Institute -- an Auburn, Alabama-based group that functions as a center of Libertarian political and social theory, according to its website. Agents made a connection between Ulbricht and Silk Road: In justifying the site’s existence, its webmaster made regular references to Austrian economic theory and the teachings of Mises. [snip] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
