[Article] DPR2 Confirmed to have been retarded, met journalist for in person interview

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-secret-life-of-a-silk-road-20-mastermind

Come the day of the face-to-face, I stood in a busy city street, and waited for the man I had exchanged dozens of encrypted messages with. No phones, or internet enabled devices, naturally. We had communicated beforehand with PGP signed messages--meaning I was in contact with whoever controlled the DPR2 encryption keys listed alongside the site's administrator account.

He was late, but as promised, appeared out of nowhere.

"Do you hear the people sing?" I asked, starting our pre-arranged phrase to verify each other's identity.

"Singing the song of angry men," he replied, completing the lyrics from Les Miserables, his words barely audible over the sound of traffic. I ushered him inside a small doorway and bolted the entrance shut. Dressed in a generically smart style, he never would have stood out from a crowd. He was invisible.

He thought very highly of Defcon, the idiot who rented the server for SR2 with his personal email.

Take Defcon, who offered his services as a programmer to DPR2 in a private message. DPR2 was intrigued by Defcon's calm tone among the chaos of Silk Road being shut down, and put him to the test.

Within a few hours, Defcon had put what would become the Silk Road 2.0 forum online, along with a host of security features that others often neglect.

"He knew what he was doing, I could tell instantly," DPR2 said.

No mention of the two or three times the site got seriously hacked and lost a shitload of coins. I'm disappointed in Cox for writing such a obvious vanity piece.


Comments


[16 Points] Thriz_whistle:

My guess is that this probably isn't even DPR2. The impostor gets their kicks, and Vice gets clicks. Vice has no incentive to disprove this person's claims.

Or, even more insidiously, the whole thing is made up by the author.

Edit: Well shit, I missed the part about the PGP.


[13 Points] None:

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[7 Points] Caymanquestion:

Lol I love this dumb shit


[5 Points] bipboopbapbeep:

“Do you hear the people sing?” I asked, starting our pre-arranged phrase to verify each other’s identity.

“Singing the song of angry men,” he replied, completing the lyrics from Les >Miserables, his words barely audible over the sound of traffic.

Lmao what a faggot. The whole plan was probably way cooler in his head, then in person, he probably said it too fast, mumbled, and it was too loud outside.


[5 Points] Elmo-Fud:

How could he be retarded with such a cool pass phase for a clandestine meeting...."Singing the song of angry men"..sounds like some boss pirate shit.."fifteen men on on a dead mans chest..yo ho ho and a kilo of coke"


[3 Points] None:

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What is this?


[3 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

Silk Road 1 /2 relied on MTGOX for offline storage of btc too much, they were virtually indivisable sister sites. I think Defcon HAD to steal the escrow on feb 13th 2014 because MTGOX robbed everybody on Feb 6th.

That's how we ended up finding 1.2 million btc stolen from MTGOX when following the escrow money.

It took DPR2 about 2 months to go from "keeping the libertarian ideal alive" to hacking other marketplaces, and 4 months for his nerve to go and run off, leaving it to the janitor to run the site.

he only ,made 4 figures because he stepped down after such a short time. I hads no idea that he was still on the staff months later:-

"“Agora is going down,” he wrote to staff in March 2014, referring to Silk Road 2.0’s main competitor. “I advise you all to stay clear of it.”

“We want to keep all attacks separate from the Silk Road name,” he wrote in another post.

If he was British, as has been speculated, he makes me feel ashamed. At least Defcon gave it a proper go. How would "taking down" the superior in every way Agora help the community?

I've never encountered a bigger bunch of idiots playing games than the Silk Road forum. Being a moderator there should be a bar to employment on any other site, for life.


[3 Points] Anti-Hero_AU:

DPR2 Confirmed to have been retarded, met journalist for in person interview

Retarded? He's the biggest player of the Silk Road empire to elude the grasp of the 3 letter agencies, and still they don't have his dox.

All the other "special needs" admins registered their servers (and other services) using Gmail accounts with their full-length IRL names as email addresses...


[3 Points] blackhand25:

I'm disappointed in Cox for writing such a obvious vanity piece.

I'm not familiar with Cox's writings personally, so I apologize if Cox is normally better than this, but for the most part Vice is a shithole. Sure, periodically one of the pigs eats piece of jewelry that fell in the slop and you can find a diamond in the crap pile, but most of the time you're just going to find shit wrapped around shit filled with shit.


[2 Points] ranger49:

str8 ego


[2 Points] ciphersexual:

Why publish now? The interview took place a long time ago.


[1 Points] Wanted_drugs_2day:

Dpr2=mongeese?

Still glad this fella has gotten away so far.