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Secret Service Silk Road Investigator Sentenced for Bitcoin Theft
Shaun W. Bridges of Laurel, Maryland is a former US secret service special agent recently sentenced to 24 months in prison. This follows after a guilty plea to one count of money laundering. Of which the crime took place while he was within the Silk Road Task Force. The group…
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Dark Web – The Silk Road Movie Being Written by Coen Brothers
It looks like Fox is preparing to make a movie called “Dark Web” which will focus on the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht! Not only that, but the studio has signed on the talents of the Coen brothers to write it for them, which will be based on the Wired…
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Ross Ulbricht Appeals for Silk Road Retrial over Police Corruption
Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old man ruled to be the founder of dark web black market site Silk Road and convicted on seven counts, has appealed for a fresh trial on the grounds that two of the police officers involved in the investigation have been convicted of fraud, committed on the…
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Key Adviser to Silk Road Arrested in Thailand
The FBI recently arrested a man in Thailand based on his alleged links to the illicit online marketplace, Silk Road. The man, Roger Thomas Clark, was linked to the site as a supposed “key adviser” to its creator, Ross Ulbright. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced his arrest,…
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France Looks to Ban Tor and Public Wi-Fi
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, French police has submitted proposals to ban anonymous web browser Tor and block Wi-Fi networks in public places to President Francois Hollande (pictured), according to French newspaper Le Monde (via Business Insider). La Monde has acquired documents that show the French government…
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US Federal Agent Admits To Stealing $820,000 Bitcoins From Silk Road
Shaun Bridges, a former US DEA agent who was investigating the online drug marketplace Silk Road, has been charged with obstructing justice and money laundering. He has since admitted the charges that were levelled against him. So, how did Mr Bridges nick quite so many Bitcoins with a huge resale figure? According to…
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Silk Road Investigator Guilty of Stealing From Site
The head of the Baltimore task force that was investigating the Silk Road black market website has pled guilty to using the site to extort money, and even admitted to agreeing a $240k deal for the movie rights to his investigation with a major Hollywood studio. Carl Mark Force has…
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Badmouthed the Silk Road Case Judge Online? You Could Be Prosecuted
The conviction of Ross Ulbricht for creating and running the online black marketplace Silk Road has elicited some heated reactions, with many attacking the case’s judge for ignoring Ulbricht’s plea for leniency in favour of making an example out of him in the war against drugs in her sentencing. Now,…
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How Ross Ulbricht Ended up in Prison for Life
Have you heard of the Silk Road? It’s been pretty big news recently. The website was the core of “the dark web” – a side of the internet that was only accessible to the uppermost of criminals. The main person behind the Silk Road (Ross Ulbricht) was convicted for Life…
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Federal Agents Charged with Stealing from Silk Road
Two Federal agents are now facing charges themselves after the takedown of the Silk Road drug marketplace last year. The two agents, Carl Mark Force and Shaun Bridges, were both involved in the takedown by operating undercover and building up evidence against the Silk Road operators. According to an affidavit,…
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Jury Rules Ross Ulbricht is Silk Road Mastermind; Guilty of All Charges
The jury in the Silk Road court case has ruled that Ross Ulbricht is guilty of all seven charges in a Manhattan court on Wednesday. The jury were convinced that Ulbricht was Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road’s shadowy mastermind, returning their verdict in just three-and-a-half hours. The evidence against Ulbricht…
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Ross Ulbricht Says He Did Create Silk Road, But He’s Not Dread Pirate Roberts
Ross Ulbricht, the man being tried for masterminding darknet black market Silk Road, has admitted to creating the site, but, according to his defence attorney Joshua Dratel, has denied that he is the site’s shadowy manager Dread Pirate Roberts. Dratel made the distinction in his opening statement on the first…
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Silk Road Reloaded Moves to Obscure I2P Network Over Tor
Silk Road Reloaded, the latest version of the infamous darknet black market, has eschewed the Tor network for the little-known but more secure I2P network Silk Road, its clones, and its successors alike have opted for Tor as their network of choice, but concerns over the level of anonymity the…
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Silk Road 2 Hacked And 4000 Bitcoins Stolen
It was only a few months ago that Silk Road was taken offline by the FBI and it’s owner tracked down and arrested. The website offered people a place to trade in illegal goods, everything from murder to drugs seemed to be available for purchase and with the use of…
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Ross Ulbricht, Alleged Creator Of Silk Road, Pleads Not Guilty To All Charges
Alleged founder and manager of the Bitcoin based black-market website Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, reportedly pleaded not guilty to all charges raised against him by the US government. The charges against Mr Ulbricht are incredibly serious including trafficking in narcotics, computer hacking, money laundering and engaging in continuing criminal enterprise.…
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