How FBI Illegally Stole Ross Ulbricht's Laptop & Brought Down The Silk Road
Earlier this week, I opined the idea of an eventual dismissal of the government's case against Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht due to shaky evidence and tactics by authorities. A bunch of screenshots and forum conversations with unknown persons, claimed to be Ulbricht, is pretty flimsy evidence from where I sit. Silk Road Trial Hinges on a Stolen Laptop. At the criminal trial in New York, FBI agent Tom Kiernan was on the stand, and an item called "Government Exhibit 200" was added to the proceedings. This item happened to be a Samsung 700z laptop in plastic wrap. Kiernan told prosecutor,....
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You might know him as "Dread Pirate Roberts" or just DPR but his real name is supposedly Ross Ulbricht, and he is the alleged founder of the underground exchange Silk Road. Mr. Ulbricht is currently facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." The FBI has claimed to have gained the IP address to a server hosting Silk Road. This server led to the connection and current case against Mr. Ulbricht, but the means as to how the FBI gained this information has been in question. Mr. Ulbricht's defenses have made arguments last week....
For the last two months, the lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have tried to shift the focus of the case onto the FBI, bringing into question the legality of their actions. How did the FBI obtain the information that brought down Silk Road and leads the current case again Ulbricht? Mr. Ulbricht is facing charges of drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering, and "continuing criminal enterprise." Ross Ulbricht, better know to many as the alleged DPR or the Dread Pirate Roberts, stands accused of creating a billion-dollar online black market known as Silk Road. Silk Road is a marketplace....
Users of the popular darknet marketplace Evolution were disappointed over the last couple of days as the site has been unavailable. Spotty access is normally unsurprising for the market, and there is a long list of alternative URLs. But none of them have worked, so it appears the site is down. Also read: How FBI Illegally Stole Ross Ulbricht's Laptop & Brought Down The Silk Road. Evolution has become much more active in the wake of the arrest and subsequent conviction of Ross Ulbricht, the operator of the first major darknet marketplace, Silk Road. Its operators do not have the same....
Ross Ulbricht, the alleged owner of the seized online drug marketplace Silk Road, is now accused of plotting murder schemes of six people, including his own employee who, he believed, had stolen around $350,000 worth of Bitcoins from him. The US investigators, who were collecting evidence from Ulbricht's laptop to prove his alleged involvement with Silk Road, found some electronic communications which mentioned the suspected thief and the illegal methods to get rid of him, according to the filing mentioned on Bloomberg. The conversation was conducted in January and February 2013, in which....
Little more than a year after his arrest, 30 year-old Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of starting and running Silk Road the infamous online drug marketplace. On Wednesday, February 4, after only 3 and half hours of deliberation, a jury found Ulbricht guilty of all 7 charges, which included computer hacking, drug trafficking and running a criminal enterprise. The evidence revealed since Ulbricht’s arrest has been damning. Ross was first arrested in a San Francisco public library with his encrypted laptop open, giving police full access to everything. From journal entries documenting the....