November 08, 2022

Silk Road drugs market hacker pleads guilty, faces 20 years inside

Jurisprudence isn't like arithmetic... two negatives never make a positive!

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August 24, 2018

Top dark web drug vendors nabbed by ‘Operation Darkness Falls’

The DoJ announced arrests, charges and guilty pleas as part of Operation Darkness Falls, which involved several government agencies.

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August 16, 2018

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison

The family of "Dread Pirate Roberts" got him an account and is typing in, word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump's clemency.

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October 06, 2017

Suspected Dark Web drug dealer undone by his own beard

You can't hide behind your beard, even on the dark web

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June 01, 2017

News in brief: AI detects pain in animals; parallel universe discovered; Silk Road creator loses appeal

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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October 12, 2016

Phisher arrested for stealing Bitcoins from dark web users

Even the shadowy dark web is no longer safe from the ravages of cybercrime it seems.

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August 16, 2016

Silk Road suspect “Libertas” can be extradited to US, says court

Gary Davis of Ireland faces a minimum sentence of 10 years if convicted in the US. An Irish court has said he has to go and face the music.

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June 07, 2016

Silk Road 2.0 deputy sentenced to 8 years in jail

Farrell's 2015 arrest followed a 6-month de-anonymizing attack on Tor codenamed Operation Onymous.

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February 03, 2016

Silk Road bitcoin-stealing Secret Service agent re-arrested

Arresting officers found bags containing Bridges’ passport and a notarised copy of his passport, along with corporate records for three offshore entities in Nevis, Belize and Mauritius.

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