Why Ross Ulbrich access his server from library?

[pornluver]

Why didn't he access that from home?

He got caught because he's in a library. If he access it from home, cops would need a warant and he could just turn off his PC

[squatter]

Why didn't he access that from home?

He got caught because he's in a library. If he access it from home, cops would need a warant and he could just turn off his PC

I assume he used the library as an extra layer of privacy. If there were a vulnerability in TOR, or whatever else he was using to hide his location, administering the Silk Road from his home could have compromised his identity. Turning off his PC would accomplish nothing, since all activity on his home internet connection would be trafficked through his ISP -- who knew his identity. The library provided some level of plausible deniability, since so many people access the internet from there. It obviously wasn't good enough, though.

[coolcoinz]

Do you really believe they would knock on his door and let him turn off his PC? If they had a trace and a proof of him managing the site they'd first get all the paperwork and then used a SWAT team to break into his place with battering rams and flashbangs. What would he do in seconds between them breaking the door and getting him in cuffs? Throw the laptop out the window?

[avikz]

The answer is simple! He used library to hide his ass!! Public computers are used by a lot of people which could have been used as an alibi by Ross. Same thing correctly pointed out by Squatter in the earlier post. However, there is a connection of this forum with Ross's arrest. Read the article below,

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/world/americas/silk-road-ross-ulbricht/index.html

Bitcointalk posts made a vital role in his arrest as described in the article!

[pornluver]

Why didn't he access that from home?

He got caught because he's in a library. If he access it from home, cops would need a warant and he could just turn off his PC

I assume he used the library as an extra layer of privacy. If there were a vulnerability in TOR, or whatever else he was using to hide his location, administering the Silk Road from his home could have compromised his identity. Turning off his PC would accomplish nothing, since all activity on his home internet connection would be trafficked through his ISP -- who knew his identity. The library provided some level of plausible deniability, since so many people access the internet from there. It obviously wasn't good enough, though.

I do not think he uses TOR to access his server.

His server's identity hidden inside deep web is his first and last security layer he has. I think he doesn't even use VPN.

[Vatimins]

     I don't understand though why he even got caught in the first place. He dared to do so, then he should've deviced a way out ahead of time, I mean a better plan for escape. Damn, the point is he could've been smarter with this. I mean, seriously? Public library? I just don't understand how he could've thought of doing wrong but not thought of a good way out. At least even when getting caught, it won't be that humiliating. He should've studied well before he even tried.

[RapTarX]

Having access from a public place is far better than having access from home. If you are at home, you are risking your privacy; what a criminal usually do( I don’t mean Ross is a criminal, he has been over-punished IMO). If he is in a public network, no one will know the exact identity. Nevertheless, there were some vulnerability with his access which has fucked up the whole situation.

[rdbase]

The answer is simple! He used library to hide his ass!! Public computers are used by a lot of people which could have been used as an alibi by Ross. Same thing correctly pointed out by Squatter in the earlier post. However, there is a connection of this forum with Ross's arrest. Read the article below,

https://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/04/world/americas/silk-road-ross-ulbricht/index.html

Bitcointalk posts made a vital role in his arrest as described in the article!

Was all discussed about on this thread a year ago today and it was dramatized in a film on how it all happened:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5318330

.. Ross Ulbricht aka. The Dread Pirate Roberts.


Didn't know this film was getting done with hollywood all but shutting down mid-last year. So they must of been just doing the special effects in post-production in having it wrap up inorder to be released earlier this year.
But here it is for all to watch and see what they thought had happened during the bust of the creator of the silk road website.

Now with the boom of bitcoin in early 2021, this is prime time for them to benefit in just how much publicity all of crypto has received, since the likes of what Elon and Saylor have been doing with their contributions thrown into the hype machine since the end of 2020.

Here is the outline they had on imdb for it:
Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells narcotics, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to...
Actors: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Yun, Jimmi Simpson, Jason Clarke, Paul Blott, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Daniel David Stewart, Kenneth Miller, Alexandra Shipp, Katie Aselton, Lexi Rabe, David DeLao, Beth Bailey, Mark Sivertsen, Will Ropp
source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7937254
trailer: https://youtu.be/LBOBuqBzn7w

Tagline: The amazon for drugs.

Releasing tomorrow according to imdb date, February 19th.

But of course they added and took some things and dressed it up so to make it more appealing to be put into a hollywood movie.

[coolcoinz]

Having access from a public place is far better than having access from home. If you are at home, you are risking your privacy; what a criminal usually do( I don’t mean Ross is a criminal, he has been over-punished IMO). If he is in a public network, no one will know the exact identity. Nevertheless, there were some vulnerability with his access which has fucked up the whole situation.

Of course. Ross was made an example for other smart kids to feel scared and know that once you get caught the government literally owns you. They can do whatever they want.
The severity of his punishment shows how scared the government is of young smart guys like him.

Having access from a public place is far better than having access from home. If you are at home, you are risking your privacy; what a criminal usually do( I don’t mean Ross is a criminal, he has been over-punished IMO). If he is in a public network, no one will know the exact identity. Nevertheless, there were some vulnerability with his access which has fucked up the whole situation.

It is safer as long as you keep switching places. Investigators look for patterns so they watch a spot and see that every time the admin goes online there's the same young guy sitting in the same spot.
You go there once - there's no connection. Twice - could be coincidence. Three, fur times and they have you.