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From Bloomberg news, Oct. 3rd, 2013
From an Internet cafe in San Francisco, a 29 year old free market evangelist ran a global online exchange of heroin and cocaine. For 2 years the FBI tried to track down this operation, known as "Silk Road". The big break came in July when an inspection of mail from Canada contained several counterfeit IDs. Each with a different name but the same picture.
In a 33 page criminal complaint unsealed on Oct. 2nd in a Manhattan federal court, the govt. charged Ross Ulbricht as the Silk Roads mastermind. According to the FBI, Silk Road was the most sophisticated and extensive criminal market place on the Internet today. The site was accessible only on a so-called Tor network and relied on an anonymous digital currency called Bitcoin.
On July 23, 2013 with the co-operation of a foreign country, the FBI succeeded in getting a scan of the Silk Road web server. The FBI then tracked Ulbrights online login to an Internet cafe in San Francisco, where he was arrested.
This disturbing info on this is the Govt's ability to track someone to their home computer just from logging into a web site. They must have just recently developed this technology. They appear to have to scan a web server first and if this is in a foreign country, they have to get permission from that govt. They didn't say who was the foreign country in this case.
From an Internet cafe in San Francisco, a 29 year old free market evangelist ran a global online exchange of heroin and cocaine. For 2 years the FBI tried to track down this operation, known as "Silk Road". The big break came in July when an inspection of mail from Canada contained several counterfeit IDs. Each with a different name but the same picture.
In a 33 page criminal complaint unsealed on Oct. 2nd in a Manhattan federal court, the govt. charged Ross Ulbricht as the Silk Roads mastermind. According to the FBI, Silk Road was the most sophisticated and extensive criminal market place on the Internet today. The site was accessible only on a so-called Tor network and relied on an anonymous digital currency called Bitcoin.
On July 23, 2013 with the co-operation of a foreign country, the FBI succeeded in getting a scan of the Silk Road web server. The FBI then tracked Ulbrights online login to an Internet cafe in San Francisco, where he was arrested.
This disturbing info on this is the Govt's ability to track someone to their home computer just from logging into a web site. They must have just recently developed this technology. They appear to have to scan a web server first and if this is in a foreign country, they have to get permission from that govt. They didn't say who was the foreign country in this case.
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