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Ross Ulbricht's Lawyer Says FBI's Hack of Silk Road Was "Criminal"
First time accepted submitter apexcp writes Trading blows with the prosecution, defendants for accused Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht continues to press for the exclusion of evidence seized during what he says is an illegal hack an awful lot like the one that got Weev 15 months in prison. "The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to a strict standard of conduct construed by the government, and the other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards. Yet neither law nor the Constitution permits rank government lawlessness without consequences."
I'm rooting for the Silk Road, not because I agree with it, but because its lesser of two evils between them, traditional drug cartels, and the street pushers, who enforce their reign with viloence.
So the Silk Road offered a good alternative to street gangs, measurablly better in every way. Better product(less chance of killing/hurting people with impurities), less violence, Less domination, control and indimidation on the streets. Less hiearchy.
Sure the street gangs and cartels could also sell on the Silk Road, but that would make them adapt to its culture and end most of the endemic problems with violence associated with them.
Silk Road Kingpin or not, I'm rooting for Ross here.
I wonder what the people he attempted to have murdered think about all this?
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Ordering a hit on someone is still illegal, high-stakes or not.
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You're missing that the server wouldn't respond to any routable IP address. It only communicated through tor. So try them all and get nothing of worth.
That means they could only have gotten an IP address by hacking a great many innocent 3rd parties using technology only the NSA has.
In turn, that means the defendant is being denied the right to face his accuser and the FBI is trying to represent inadmissible hearsay as actual testimony by means of a few big lies under oath.