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Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial

Posted by samzenpus on from the throwing-away-the-key dept.

blottsie writes Ross Ulbricht was convicted on Wednesday of running Silk Road, a Dark Net black market that became over a $100 million Internet phenomenon before Ulbricht's 2013 arrest. Ulbricht was found guilty on all seven felony charges he faced, including drug trafficking, continuing a criminal enterprise, hacking, money laundering, and fraud with identification documents. He faces up to life in prison for these convictions.

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  1. Re:Buying drugs by BLToday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or you know, you could just hop on a plane to Colorado.

  2. Re:If he actually did all that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably. All he was doing was running bit torrent. He had an open port on his laptop! The feds used that to hack the computer and plant the private keys to the silk road's bitcoin wallet, as well as the mastermind's criminal diary and accounting records. And then made the silk road page come up and log in.

    Then they pounced.

    Open ports. Not even once.