Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story

  • 3 October 2014
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Finally there is an update from Brian Krebs to this story Triple Helix posted about last year Bitcoin value drops after FBI shuts Silk Road drugs site
 
2 October 2014
 
New court documents released this week by the U.S. government in its case against the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road online black market and drug bazaar suggest that the feds may have some ‘splaining to do.
 
http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SR-captcha-285x207.pngThe login prompt and CAPTCHA from the Silk Road home page.
 
Prior to its disconnection last year, the Silk Road was reachable only via Tor, software that protects users’ anonymity by bouncing their traffic between different servers and encrypting the traffic at every step of the way. Tor also lets anyone run a Web server without revealing the server’s true Internet address to the site’s users, and this was the very technology that the Silk road used to obscure its location.
 
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tor from my stand point is at fault and sloppy how they operate.

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