Dread Pirate Roberts (silk road) arrest warrant

[trdiablo]

He made some really big mistakes

1.Advertised Silk Road days after it’s launch on drug forums and bitcointalk.org with the username “altoid”. 8 months later he used this username looking for developers and included his personal email (rossulbricht@gmail.com) in the message.

2.Using records from a seized webserver, the FBI agent subpoena’d his way back through a private VPN server to an IP address at a coffee shop on Laguna street in San Francisco. This happened to be 500 feet away from the house of one on Ross Ulbricht’s friends.

3.US Customs intercepted a package containing 9 pieces of counterfeit id. All 9 had photos of Ross Ulbricht with different names.

4.Ulbricht posted on Stack Overflow using his real name, asking “How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?”. One minute later he changed his username to “frosty”, but a subpoena shows the original name.

Biggest mistake, he decided to stay in the US while having 26,000 bitcoins in his wallet.
Now he can explain Bitcoins to the homeys in the prison.

Full arrest warrant here: http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf

[RodeoX]

It was just a matter of time. 

[bbit]

What was the end game for DPR ? Jail.

[BitCoiner2012]

How many individuals will they be targeting to take wealth and liberty subsequently as a result of site theft is my next question.

[RodeoX]

I wonder if this means the mass arrests are coming? I would assume the FBI now has a list of customers and sellers. If you are a customer you may be safe, now that the DOJ has stated that they are no longer going after users.

[trdiablo]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

[jl2012]

The more interesting question is how do they locate the server? They just busted Freedom Hosting not long ago. Are there some fatal problems with TOR?

[RodeoX]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

I don't know enough about SR code to know if seller identities are compromised, but the FBI is going to be asking a lot of questions and DPR has a lot of answers. The FBI may also have been collecting data for months or years. These are not mall cops we are talking about.

[TooCasual]

Now he can explain Bitcoins to the homeys in the prison.

LOL haha...

TC.

[jl2012]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

It may reveal the identities of the buyers, as they need to provide mailing address

For sellers, they may leave some trails in their PMs

[Torn]

How many individuals will they be targeting to take wealth and liberty subsequently as a result of site theft is my next question.

As many as possible. The US criminal gangs with badges are in the process of taking from anyone they can regardless of laws or location. No one is safe anywhere from the long arm with a gun attached.

[bbit]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

Btw: To reduce his lifetime sentence I'm sure he'll rat outs out some Silk Road sellers. Yes?

[jl2012]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

Btw: To reduce his lifetime sentence I'm sure he'll rat outs out some Silk Road sellers. Yes?

In an ideal situation, he shouldn't know who the sellers are

[bbit]

How does arresting DPR reveal the identities of the sellers on SR? They should be safe.
Only thing that will change for them is that they will start selling on BMR instead of SR.

Btw: To reduce his lifetime sentence I'm sure he'll rat outs out some Silk Road sellers. Yes?

In an ideal situation, he shouldn't know who the sellers are

Yes, but he knows each one to help in case he ever got caught.  If I was him I would know everything about everyone in order to protect myself.

[AC130AS]

What was the end game for DPR ? Jail.

you mean High-Security Prison

[AC130AS]

I did buy some mining equipment from there after a friend told me, I had some 0.01 BTC in there, but like  I said mining equipent like a FPGA board and a couple of block erupters. But I noticed how MTgox has been changing its numbers recently.

I notice how Ross look slike s mart man, good potential, smart kid, lots of education into this kid, I cant believe the FBI make people look like criminals, when hes not.

[jubalix]

I don't get how the FEDS could seize 26000 BTC did he not encrypt/password protect his wallet at all times?

then just right to silence.

the end.

[AC130AS]

He tranfered all of his investments into one wallet and used it for some time, which was a big no oops.

[jubalix]

He tranfered all of his investments into one wallet and used it for some time, which was a big no oops.

yes but you should always have the wallet encrypted......I cant believe he did not do this so sure they can seize the wallet but they should not be able to spend the coins

[genjix]

It's easy saying what you would've done if you were in his position after the fact.

What are you actually doing?