FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

I think a lot of people earning $80M/year would kill someone they didn't know to protect that income.
 
23536 said:
Or cocaine! You could also buy cocaine there. You seriously missed out.
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And of great quality AND price compared to the usual shit sugar we get here in Sweden. Same with many other drugs. Fuck this now I am pissed.

Though cocaine can always be aquired elsewhere, but what about more rare drugs like PCP etc? It was so easy access and convenient and if you just read up some, kind of foolproof as well. Goddamn it. Good things never last.
 
this is good news trust me

fuck bitcoin and fuck the new DPR for being such a stubborn douche

alt coins are soing going to be a misnomer when they are worth more than btc. time for all the legit bitcoin businesses to put up or shut up, and in the meantime the owner of BMR just got a lot busier today
 
Yeah if it was just the drug charges he would probably get a lot more sympathy but his attempted hired murder doesn't help his case. But as views about the drug war are changing it could make some more people to think about the problems it has caused and not solved any it was trying to fight.

I'm not defending him on the contract killing, just the drugs to be clear.

Also to everyone, call me paranoid but I wouldn't talk about getting stuff from SR on a public forum, especially now that it has been seized

^I imagine BMR will be down for a while with all the traffic
 
shimazu said:
this is good news trust me

fuck bitcoin and fuck the new DPR for being such a stubborn douche

alt coins are soing going to be a misnomer when they are worth more than btc. time for all the legit bitcoin businesses to put up or shut up, and in the meantime the owner of BMR just got a lot busier today
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Why do you have such a bone to pick with bitcoins? It almost sounds like you are angry at them for some reason. Makes me think you either lost tons of money with bitcoins or have tons of money invested in alt coins =D
 
LuGoJ said:
Why do you have such a bone to pick with bitcoins? It almost sounds like you are angry at them for some reason. Makes me think you either lost tons of money with bitcoins or have tons of money invested in alt coins =D
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I think probally both, sounds like it anyway.

Oh well this road has closed, another few have already opened. Onwards...
 
Mendo_K said:
I think probally both, sounds like it anyway.

Oh well this road has closed, another few have already opened. Onwards...
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I wonder how Bitcoins will be affected. I'm not all too familiar with the relationship between Silk Road and BItcoins in general but the Bitcoin market doesn't seem that shaken up over the news.
 
The big FBI takedown

Well, as this source looks like isn't a source anymore, I hope I am allowed to post this here.
The biggest market has been seized by the FBI, DEA, IRS and Homeland Security yesterday.

The article about this :

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20131002&id=16960711

The criminal complaint :

http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

The complaint might have contain links, if mods feel like delete it.

I think it is important for everyone who used this market to know, that all the data is in the FBIs hands, even if it is encrypted by PGP, if they could take down the site and find the owner, they can encrypt the PGP as well, so take this in consideration, and take action if needed !
 
Am I the only one that thinks this Ross dude is not the current DPR? This bust seems way too easy. A guy obsessed with security is ordering stuff on SR like a regular customer. He's living in the states. The whole email thing. Too easy. I'm not sure what role this Ross dude played, but I don't think he is the current DPR. If Ross found his fellow operators he needed on online message boards, wouldn't the first thing they notice is that they met on clearnet using their real names and all that jazz, and take that into consideration. Oh yea, and there apparently was no murder, at least no evidence for one.

For fucks sake, this Ross guy lived with roommates. What is the point of living with roommates if you're a multimillionaire. I bet the real DPR is ballin out in some obscure country with a non-extradition treaty with the US. I mean, seriously, if you can access and do all your work anywhere, why would you live in the country actively pursuing you? Something doesn't add up. Perhaps Ross was a go between or the founder who then sold it (there are many rumors of the current DPR not being the original). I would also have to imagine that a site like this would have had early warning systems. DPR and SR knew the government was coming for them. They stated, publicly, several times they were doing everything in their power. You don't think their would be some sort of system in place to shut everything down if the system was being attacked. The real DPR had access to some of the best hackers in the world, they would know how to do this. Also armed with this knowledge the supposed DPR still orders stuff on his own site, including finding a hit man (supposedly).

Again, I don't know what role this Ross guy plays in all this, but I simply don't believe it was him.
 
Shit, I loved SR. Every product you could dream of, great service, great quality and great prices. All because there was fierce competition between the numerous vendors (capitalism at its best!). I've never even bought drugs from a street dealer, nor do I know any. FML.
Never used PGP for any shipping info, but buying drugs here in the Netherlands isn't illegal, so I'm not worried about that. I'm just worried about getting ripped off and potentially poisoned by any new sources I'll have to acquire...


^You're right. The SR forums are still online as well, but until DPR (or another admin) posts anything I think we'll have to believe it's true.
 
bennyZA said:
Am I the only one that thinks this Ross dude is not the current DPR? This bust seems way too easy. A guy obsessed with security is ordering stuff on SR like a regular customer. He's living in the states. The whole email thing. Too easy. I'm not sure what role this Ross dude played, but I don't think he is the current DPR. If Ross found his fellow operators he needed on online message boards, wouldn't the first thing they notice is that they met on clearnet using their real names and all that jazz, and take that into consideration. Oh yea, and there apparently was no murder, at least no evidence for one.

For fucks sake, this Ross guy lived with roommates. What is the point of living with roommates if you're a multimillionaire. I bet the real DPR is ballin out in some obscure country with a non-extradition treaty with the US. I mean, seriously, if you can access and do all your work anywhere, why would you live in the country actively pursuing you? Something doesn't add up. Perhaps Ross was a go between or the founder who then sold it (there are many rumors of the current DPR not being the original). I would also have to imagine that a site like this would have had early warning systems. DPR and SR knew the government was coming for them. They stated, publicly, several times they were doing everything in their power. You don't think their would be some sort of system in place to shut everything down if the system was being attacked. The real DPR had access to some of the best hackers in the world, they would know how to do this. Also armed with this knowledge the supposed DPR still orders stuff on his own site, including finding a hit man (supposedly).

Again, I don't know what role this Ross guy plays in all this, but I simply don't believe it was him.
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This 250%
I would never expect the owner to be residing in the states.
There are so many more countries where it would make sense to start a business like this, and when it gets so huge he would obviously be smart enough to not make it so easy to get caught.
My moneys on the fact that he knew maybe someone was getting close to catching him and he just ran with his money and let this guy get busted

EDIT: and think of the huge boner the states must have right now, thinking they caught the facilitator of the biggest drug marketplace in the world, and now they can boast about their superiority and intelligence and garner more support for the war on drugs
 
Knowing the gov was after him there is no way he would be so stupid, unless... this was a set of crumbs to lead LE to a completely different person. I wouldn't be surprised if Ross was paid to be a red herring, and the government doesn't actually have enough physical evidence to convict him.

I also wouldn't be surprised, at all, if a message starts circulating the internet from DPR.
 
I thought he only ever implied that the owner had changed?

How did they get the server if he's not involved any more?
 
I thought the story was he discovered a flaw in SR and instead of exploiting it, told them about it, and got half the business in return. Which he then got full control over.

Nothing dodgy happened there I'm sure.
 
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