Feds Caught the Silk Road Mastermind With… A Google Search

Feds Caught the Silk Road Mastermind With... A Google Search

“Dread Pirate Roberts,” the mastermind behind the online drug market Silk Road, seemed like a smart dude. He amassed a multimillion dollar fortune in drug money in just a few years! And he did it using the deep web and cryptocurrency usually associated with sophisticated cybercrime. But if 30-year-old self-styled “Robert Pattinson lookalike” Ross Ulbricht is found guilty of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, he will have revealed his identity in a remarkably unsophisticated way. A federal agent says he pinned the Silk Road on Ulbricht with a simple Google search.

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