FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

Bob Loblaw said:
150-300k for a hit?! Fuck's sake, that's a hustle.

I like how that bullshit seizure pic looks about as legit as BL's did lol.



Fuck their rejection; if the government invented it, it's flawed. Bottom of the barrel employees...
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So ive fully read the papers now.. Basically..

Some guy hacked SR and threatened to release lots of vendor and sellers account info, he said he needed 500k to pay off a drugs gang who he owed the money too, he asked if he could speak to the drug gang directly. He invited them to Silk Road, he then asked if he could pay these people to "execute" the guy threatening him because he was a problem (he has a wife and 2 kids). Even commenting "it dosent have to be clean".. jesus this is where he really fucked it all for himself.. right?

Then goes on to message says "price seems high, I had a hit done for 80k previous".. guys said OK.. 48 hours later they message back "Job Done."

Police are saying they have no record of said person being murdered though, DPR got done over...?? Breaking Bad style lol

Not the "hero" everyone was expecting?
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
Wasn't it the US Navy that invented it? And rejected it? Maybe there was a clue there...
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How true this info I posted is I am not sure & from my time on BL I've learned your a well of knowledge SHM & I am more to believe you that Wikipedia tbh.

As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government, with the Swedish government and other organizations providing the rest,[14] including NGOs and thousands of individual sponsors
 
A lot of things coming out in these documents, he had ordered some Fake IDs to his residence in July 2013, the FBI were tracking him at this point. They actually went and spoke to him at his apartment about it, and nothing else was done. Was he not suspicious??
 
Who was he going to sell it to though? Not much he could do really.

Daft of him to access tor through a vpn though.
 
jesus thisll mean going back to the RC alternatives for a lot of people. Fuckin AH7921 and 4th generation cannabinoids or whatever they are up to by now etc. All this is very good news for the vendors of these 3rd rate things..

I hope all you guys who had just placed orders on SR havent lost too much if all the bitcoin transcations running through the site have been seized.
 
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There's still lots of other sites on and off TOR.. but for the most part of SR users i think it just means back to buying off the street until something better comes up
 
Silk Road Shut Down by Feds

U.S. law enforcement officials have shut down down Silk Road, the online drug market, following a raid and an arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the site’s alleged proprietor.

According to a Justice Department release, Ulbricht, 29, was arrested in San Francisco and will be presented in San Francisco federal court Wednesday morning. Until Wednesday, the person who ran the site was known only by the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.”
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Read more at:
http://nation.time.com/2013/10/02/a...iam-ulbricht-arrested-3-6m-in-bitcoin-seized/
 
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StoneHappyMonday said:
Thanks for doing my reading for me Mendo. Yeah, that one is interesting.
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Summary, unless you were being sarcastic. ;)

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I'm currently reading through the criminal complaint, which covers a lot of things worth noting with regard to how and why DPR got caught.
This has been a joint operation run the cybercrime squad within the FBI's New York field office. It involved the FBI, DEA, IRS and Homeland Security's investigative unit.
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It's unstated from when the investigation started, but they received a complete copy of the Silk Road web server on the 23rd of July 2013. This was all done under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which implies that they had access to current site information up until the point they shut the site down.
This included user account and transaction information. It's unclear whether or not this covers addresses and other sensitive transaction information.
**This also apparently covers at least 60 days worth of messages from the period where the site was copied.
From February 6, 2011 to July 23 2013, 9,519,664BTC was generated in sales, 614,305BTC going directly to DPR in the way of "commissions". This comes to a total of 1,229,465 transactions.
Based on the copy of the site which the FBI received, they believe DPR to have been the sole operator and owner of SR, handling all aspects of the site himself and delegating only user affairs to appointed moderators.
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In March of this year, a SR user/vendor called "FriendlyChemist" attempted to extort DPR via SR's private message system, providing proof that he had the names/addresses of thousands of vendors/users after having allegedly hacked a bigger vendor. He demanded $500,000USD, saying that he needed the money to pay off his supplier. DPR then stated that he wished to speak to FriendlyChemist's supplier.
A user called "redandwhite" then proceeded to contact DPR, stating that he was FriendlyChemist's supplier and also the owner of his debt. DPR then solicited redandwhite to "execute" FriendlyChemist, supplying redandwhite his full name and address. After having agreed on terms, DPR sent redandwhite approximately $150,000USD (1,670BTC) to have FriendlyChemist killed. redandwhite later provided photographic proof of the alleged murder.
Investigators could not find any record of somebody in that region being killed around that date or matching that description. This possibly implies that DPR was duped/scammed, but, DPR is also quoted as having told redandwhite the following: "Not long ago, I had a clean hit done for 80k."
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DPR has been identified as Ross William Ulbricht.
> "He is 29 years old, graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 2006. From 2006 to 2010, he attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Materials Science and Engineering."
His LinkedIn profile is at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rossulbricht
Now, onto how he got caught...
An agent involved in the investigation ("Agent-1"), found the first few references to SR on the internet from somebody only identified as "altoid", attempting to promote the site in its beginning days, in January of 2011.
In October of the same year, a user also going by the name of "altoid" made a posting on Bitcoin Talk titled "a venture backed Bitcoin startup company", which directed interested users to "rossulbricht at gmail dot com".
That email address is what led to DPR's downfall.
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After identifying "altoid", they started connecting the "DPR" identity to Ulbricht pretty quickly.
Ulbricht's Google+ page and YouTube profile both make multiple references to the a website dubbed the "Mises Institute". DPR's signature on the SR forums contained a link to the Mises Institute.
DPR cited the "Austrian Economic theory" along with the works of Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, all of which are closesly associated with the Mises Institute.
Server logs show that someone logged onto the SR administration panel from San Fransisco around the same time that Ulbricht was staying in San Fransisco.
Multiple fake IDs were intercepted by U.S. Customs & Border Patrol while on their way to an address which Ulbricht was living at the time. These IDs all carried photos of Ulbricht but had false names and details. This was around the same time that DPR stated in a message that he was acquiring some fake IDs to buy new servers.
When questioned by Homeland Security about the fake IDs, he refused to answer any questions but then stated that anyone could purchase such things using "Silk Road" and "Tor".
The address which Ulbricht was staying at was being rented in cash and he was living with housemates who knew him under a name which corresponded with one of the fake IDs.
 
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