The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity

itwbennett writes Silk Road was based on an expectation of anonymity: Servers operated within an anonymous Tor network. Transactions between buyers and sellers were conducted in bitcoin. Everything was supposedly untraceable. Yet prosecutors presented a wealth of digital evidence to convince the jury that Ross Ulbricht was Dread Pirate Roberts, the handle used by the chief operator of the site. From Bitcoin to server logins and, yes, Facebook, here's a look at 5 technologies that tripped Ulbricht up.

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Re:Stupidity is a technology now?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, Facebook is a technology.

Re:More than a little retarded

[rmdingler]

Careful now.

I have it on good authority one can go from "the worst pirate I ever heard of" to "that's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen" in less than *one film at the Bijou.

*It's a colloquial measurement, like football fields and olympic swimming pools.